Advances in Information Retrieval: 27th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2005, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, March 21-23, 2005, Proceedings

Welcome to Santiago de Compostela! We are pleased to host the 27th Annual European Conferenceon Information Retrieval Research (ECIR 2005) on its first visit to Spain. These proceedings contain the refereed full papers and poster abstracts p— sented at ECIR 2005. This conference was initially established by the Infor— tion Retrieval Specialist Group of the British Computer Society (BCS—IRSG) under the name “Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research. ” The colloquium was held in th...