Advances in Information Retrieval

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Advances in Information Retrieval is written by Craig Macdonald and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3540786465 (ISBN 10) and 9783540786467 (ISBN 13).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2008, held in Glasgow, UK, in March/April 2008. The 33 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited lectures and 32 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 full article submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation, Web IR, social media, cross-lingual information retrieval, theory, video, representation, wikipedia and e-books, as well as expert search.