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This paper summarises the scientific work presented at the 28th European Conference on Information Retrieval and demonstrates that the field has not only significantly progressed over the last year but has also continued to make inroads into areas such as Genomics, Multimedia, Peer-to-Peer and XML retrieval.

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    Mounia Lalmas & Theodora Tsikrika

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Lalmas, M., Rüger, S., Tsikrika, T., Yavlinsky, A. (2006). Progress in Information Retrieval. In: Lalmas, M., MacFarlane, A., Rüger, S., Tombros, A., Tsikrika, T., Yavlinsky, A. (eds) Advances in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3936. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11735106_1

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