The european conference on information retrieval research now in its 25th silver jubilee edition was initiallyestablished bythe information retrieval specialist group of the british computer societybcs irsg under the name annual colloquium on information retrieval research and was always held in the united kingdom until 1997. Fabrizio sebastiani editor advances in information retrieval 25th european conference on ir research ecir 2003 pisa italy april 14 16 2003 proceedings volume 2633 of lecture notes in computer science springer 2003. Advances in information retrieval 25th european conference on ir research ecir 2003 pisa italy april 14 16 2003 proceedings. Advances in information retrieval 25th european conference on ir research ecir 2003 pisa italy april 14 16 2003 proceedings sebastiani fabrizio . The annual bcs irsg european conference on information retrieval 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retrieval the conference encourages the submission of high quality research papers reporting original previously unpublished results