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Final CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

30th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2008) 30th March - 3rd April, University of Glasgow http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/

Organized by: University of Glasgow
In cooperation with: BCS-IRSG, ACM SIGIR

Tutorials and workshops (30th March)
http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/tutorials_workshops.html

ECIR 2008 will host three half-day tutorials and three full-day workshops.

Tutorial: Advanced language modeling approaches (case study: expert
search) - Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente, The Netherlands http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/tutorial_t1.html

Tutorial: Search and discovery in user-generate text content - Maarten de Rijke and Wouter Weerkamp, ISLA, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/tutorial_t2.html

Tutorial: Research and building IR applications using Terrier - Craig Macdonald and Ben He, University of Glasgow, UK http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/tutorial_t3.html

Workshop: Workshop on novel methodologies for evaluation in Information Retrieval - organized by Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, UK, Martin Braschler, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland, Nicola Ferro, University of Padova, Italy, and Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
Program: http://www.trebleclef.eu/program_ws_ecir08.php

Workshop: Efficiency issues in Information Retrieval Workshop - organized by Roi Blanco, Universidade da Coruña, Spain and Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI CNR, Italy
Program: http://irlab.dc.fi.udc.es/ecir/program.html

Workshop: Exploiting semantic annotations in Information Retrieval - organized by Omar Alonso, A9.com, USA and Hugo Zaragoza, Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain
Program: http://www.yr-bcn.es/esair08/

• Accommodation Assistance in booking your hotel is provided by our Conference and Visitors Services Office. For further information about Accommodation, please visit http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/accommodation.html

• Registration For registration and other information, please visit the ECIR 2008 home page at http://ecir2008.dcs.gla.ac.uk/registration.html

• Main sponsors Google http://www.google.com Microsoft Research http://research.microsoft.com Yahoo! Research http://research.yahoo.com MatrixWare Information Services http://www.matrixware.com

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Glasgow,

The ECIR 2008 Chairs
(Ian Ruthven, Vassilis Plachouras, Ryen White and Iadh Ounis)