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 The conference encourages the submission of high quality research papers reporting original, previously unpublished results.
The 32nd European Conference on Information Retrieval will be held at The Open University in Milton Keynes, UK from the 28th to the 31st of March 2010. The conference is organised by KMi (The Open University) in co-operation with Dublin City University and the University of Essex, supported by BCS IRSG and ACM SIGIR.
The Call for Papers can be found here.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Enterprise Search, Intranet, Desktop, Adversarial IR
* Web IR
* Digital libraries
* IR Theory and Formal Models
* Web log analysis
* Distributed IR, peer to peer IR, Mobile IR, Fusion/Combination
* Multimedia IR
* Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation for IR
* Topic detection and tracking, Routing, Content-based filtering, Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering
* Question answering, NLP for IR, Summarization, Lexical acquisition
* Text Data Mining
* Text Categorization, Clustering
* Performance, Scalability, Architectures, Efficiency, Platforms
* Indexing, Query representation, Query reformulation, Structure-based representation, XML
* Metadata, Social networking/tagging
* Evaluation methods and metrics, Experimental design, Test collection
* Interactive IR, User studies, User models, Task-based IR
* User interfaces and visualization
* Other domain-specific IR (e.g., Genomic IR, legal IR, IR for chemical structures)
* Blog and online-community search