The British Computer Society's Information Retrieval Specialist Group's annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'04) is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval. The Conference encourages the submission of high quality research papers reporting original, previously unpublished results.

ECIR began life as the Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research. The colloquium was held in the UK each year until 1998 when the event was held in Grenoble, France. Since then the conference venue has alternated between the United Kingdom and Continental Europe, and the event was renamed to the European Conference on Information Retrieval. In recent years, ECIR has continued to grow and has become the major European forum for the discussion of research in the field of Information Retrieval. To mark this metamorphosis from a small informal colloquia to a major event in the IR research calendar, the BCS-IRSG decided to rename the event to the European Conference on Information Retrieval.

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Conference Chairs

Sharon McDonald and JohnTait