th These proceedings contain the refereed papers and posters presented at the 28 Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2006), which was held at Imperial College London in South Kensington between April 10 and 12, 2006. ECIR is the annual conference of the British Computer Society’s Inf- mation Retrieval Specialist Group. The event started its life as a colloquium in 1978 and was held in the UK each year until 1998, when the event took place in Grenoble, France. Since then the venue has alternated between the UK and Continental Europe. In the last decade ECIR has grown to become the major Europeanforumforthediscussionofresearchinthe?eldofinformationretrieval. ECIR 2006 received 177 paper and 73 poster submissions, largely from the UK (18%) and Continental Europe (50%), but we had many sub- missions from furthera?eldincludingAmerica(7%),Asia(21%),Middle EastandAfrica(2%), and Australasia (2%). In total 37 papers and 28 posters were accepted, and two papers were converted to posters. All contributions were reviewed by at least three reviewers in a double anonymous process and then ranked during a ProgrammeCommittee meeting with respectto scienti?c quality andoriginality. It is a good and healthy sign for information retrieval in general, and ECIR in particular, that the submission rate has more than doubled over the past three years. The downside, of course, is that many high-quality submissions had to be rejected owing to a limited capacity of the conference.
Editors and Affiliations
Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK
Mounia Lalmas
Department of Information Science, City University, London, UK
Andy MacFarlane
Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Stefan Rüger
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Anastasios Tombros
CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Theodora Tsikrika
Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, UK
Alexei Yavlinsky
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Advances in Information Retrieval
Book Subtitle: 28th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2006, London, UK, April 10-12, 2006, Proceedings
Editors: Mounia Lalmas, Andy MacFarlane, Stefan Rüger, Anastasios Tombros, Theodora Tsikrika, Alexei Yavlinsky
