Advances in Information Retrieval 30th European Conference on IR Res

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2008, held in Glasgow, UK, in March/April 2008. The 33 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with th

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Craig Macdonald Iadh Ounis Vassilis Plachouras Ian Ruthven Ryen W. White (Eds.)

Advances in Information Retrieval 30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008 Glasgow, UK, March 30-April 3, 2008 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Craig Macdonald Iadh Ounis University of Glasgow Department of Computing Science Glasgow, UK, G12 8QQ, UK E-mail: {craigm, ounis}@dcs.gla.ac.uk Vassilis Plachouras Yahoo! Research Ocata 1, 1st floor, 08003 Barcelona, Spain E-mail: [email protected] Ian Ruthven University of Strathclyde Department of Computing and Information Sciences Glasgow, UK E-mail: [email protected] Ryen W. White Microsoft Research One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052, USA E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008922895 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.3, H.2, I.2.3, I.2.6-7, H.4, H.5.4, I.7 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

These proceedings contain the refereed technical papers and posters presented at the 30th Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2008). ECIR is the annual conference of the British Computer Society’s specialist group in Information Retrieval (BCS-IRSG).