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Advances in Information Retrieval 87 Germany are known as globalTheseproceedingscontaintherefereedfulltechnicalpaperspresentedatthe26th Annual European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2004). ECIR is theannualconferenceoftheBritishComputerSocietysspecialistgroupinInf mation Retrieval. This year the conference was held at the School of Computing and Technology at the University of Sunderland. ECIR began life as the nual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research. The colloquium was held in the UK each