Advances in Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval

The Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) was formed in the Computer Science Department of the University ofMassachusetts, Amherst in 1992. The core support for the Center came from a National Science Foun- tion State/Industry/University Cooperative Research Center(S/IUCRC) grant, although there had been a sizeable information retrieval (IR) research group for over 10 years prior to that grant. Thebasic goal of these Centers is to combine basic research, applied research, and ...