Advances in Information Retrieval: 26th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2004, Sunderland, UK, April 5-7, 2004, Proceedings

These proceedings contain the refereed full technical paper spresented at the 26th Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2004). ECIR is the annual conference of the British Computer Society’s specialist group in Inf- mation Retrieval. This year the conference was held at the School of Computing and Technology at the University of Sunderland. ECIR began life as the - nual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research. The colloquium was held in the UK each year until 1998 ...