ECIR 2010

Abstract

The 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2010) was held at The Open University during March 28-31, 2010 in Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. The conference was organized by the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), The Open University, in co-operation with Dublin City University and the University of Essex. The core conference attracted well over 160 attendees, and about 210 individuals attended one or more events of the overall programme that included tutorials and workshops before the conference and the Industry Day after the conference. The ECIR conference series is the annual conference of the Information Retrieval Specialist Group of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, (BCS IRSG) and had been running in various forms since 1979. ECIR has long been the foremost Information Retrieval (IR) conference in Europe. It started out as a small-scale colloquium, but increased in size until it became a conference in 2003. Irrespective of this change, the conference has kept the ethos of encouraging the participation of research students or new researchers to the area either by paper or poster presentation or by supporting attendance at the conference. ECIR is a general and multi-disciplinary information retrieval conference that accepts submissions on all aspects of IR including those from computer scientists, information scientists, psychologists, engineers etc. Since 1998 the conference has alternated between the UK and mainland