Recent Developments in Information Retrieval

• Published in: Advances in Information Retrieval Vol. 5993; pp. 1 - 9
• Main Authors: Gurrin, Cathal, He, Yulan, Kazai, Gabriella, Kruschwitz, Udo, Little, Suzanne, Roelleke, Thomas, Rüger, Stefan, van Rijsbergen, Keith
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Springer Berlin / Heidelberg 2010; Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Anchor Text; Automatic Image Annotation; Canonical Correlation Analysis; Collaborative Filter; Information Retrieval
• ISBN: 3642122744; 9783642122743
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_1

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.