Paul Clough (EDT), Colum Foley (EDT), Cathal Gurrin (EDT), Gareth Jones (EDT), Wessel Kraaij (EDT), Hyowon Lee (EDT), Vanessa Murdock (EDT) Advances in Information Retrieval

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2011, held in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2010. The 45 revised full papers presented together with 24 poster papers, 17 short papers, and 6 tool demonstrations were carefully reviewed and selected from 223 full research paper submissions and 64 poster/demo submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on text categorization, recommender systems, Web IR, IR evaluation, IR for Social Networks, cross-language IR, IR theory, multimedia IR, IR applications, interactive IR, and question answering /NLP.