Advances in Information Retrieval (Proceedings of the 28th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2006)

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2006, held in London, UK in April 2006. The 37 revised full papers and 28 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 250 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on formal models, document and query representation and text understanding, design and evaluation, topic identification and news retrieval, clustering and classification, refinement and feedback, performance and peer-to-peer networks, Web search, structure/XML, multimedia, cross-language retrieval, genomic IR, and posters