Recent developments in information retrieval

  • Authors:

  • Cathal Gurrin;Yulan He;Gabriella Kazai;Udo Kruschwitz;Suzanne Little;Thomas Roelleke;Stefan Rüger;Keith van Rijsbergen

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Computing, Dublin City University, Ireland;Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK;Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK;School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK;Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK;Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London, UK;Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK;Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK

  • Venue:
  • ECIR'2010 Proceedings of the 32nd European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper summarizes the scientific work presented at the 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval. It demonstrates that information retrieval (IR) as a research area continues to thrive with progress being made in three complementary sub-fields, namely IR theory and formal methods together with indexing and query representation issues, furthermore Web IR as a primary application area and finally research into evaluation methods and metrics. It is the combination of these areas that gives IR its solid scientific foundations. The paper also illustrates that significant progress has been made in other areas of IR. The keynote speakers addressed three such subject fields, social search engines using personalization and recommendation technologies, the renewed interest in applying natural language processing to IR, and multimedia IR as another fast-growing area.