Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

From ECIR 2014 official flicker account Between Apr. 14 to Apr. 16, 2014, in the beautiful Amsterdam city in Netherlands, I attended the the 36th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2014). The conference started with Workshops/Tutorials day on Apr 13, which I didn't attend. The first day was the workshops and tutorials day. ECIR 2014 had a wide range of workshops/tutorials that covered various aspects of IR such as: Text Quantification: A Tutorial , GamifIR' 14  workshop,  Context Aware Retrieval and Recommendation workshop ( CaRR 2014 ), Information Access in smart cities workshop ( i-ASC 2014 ), and Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval workshop ( BIR 2014 ). The main conference started on April 14 with a welcome note from the conference chair Maarten de Rijke . After that,   Ayse Goker , from Robert Gordon University presented the winner of Karen Spärck Jones award and the keynote speaker Eugene Agichtein , a professor at Emory University . His