Includes bibliographical references and index.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th European Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2002, held in Glasgow, UK, in March 2002. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 52 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on multimedia, Web-information retrieval, query modification, soft computing, models, categorization, structured documents, cross-language issues, and interactive systems.

Multimedia -- Evaluating a Melody Extraction Engine -- Organising and Searching Partially Indexed Image Databases -- Combining Features for Content-Based Sketch Retrieval -- A Comparative Evaluation of Retrieval Performance -- The Web -- Combining Web Document Representations in a Bayesian Inference Network Model Using Link and Content-Based Evidence -- An Improved Computation of the PageRank Algorithm -- Serving Enhanced Hypermedia Information -- Query Modification -- The Use of Implicit Evidence for Relevance Feedback in Web Retrieval -- Subject Knowledge, Source of Terms, and Term Selection in Query Expansion: An Analytical Study -- Automatic Profile Reformulation Using a Local Document Analysis -- Soft Computing -- A Study on Using Genetic Niching for Query Optimisation in Document Retrieval -- Concept Based Adaptive IR Model Using FCA-BAM Combination for Concept Representation and Encoding -- Models -- A Layered Bayesian Network Model for Document Retrieval -- Term Frequency Normalization via Pareto Distributions -- Optimal Mixture Models in IR -- Categorization -- Text Categorization: An Experiment Using Phrases -- A Hierarchical Model for Clustering and Categorising Documents -- Uncertainty-Based Noise Reduction and Term Selection in Text Categorization -- Structured Documents -- A Graphical User Interface for Structured Document Retrieval -- The Accessibility Dimension for Structured Document Retrieval -- Cross-Language -- Building Bilingual Dictionaries from Parallel Web Documents -- Translation-Based Indexing for Cross-Language Retrieval -- Interactive Systems -- A Retrospective Evaluation Method for Exact-Match and Best-Match Queries Applying an Interactive Query Performance Analyser -- Genre Classification and Domain Transfer for Information Filtering.