The Information Retrieval Group led by Professor Keith van Rijsbergen has a vigorous programme of research, based on both theory and experiment, aimed at developing novel, effective, and efficient retrieval approaches for all types of information. The group plays a leading role in the international information retrieval community and has set trends in many aspects of IR research. The IR group of Glasgow is one of the oldest and major information retrieval research centres in the world.

The group, part of the Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, has a long and strong research history in a wide area of information retrieval research from theoretical modelling of the retrieval process to large-scale text retrieval systems building and to the interactive evaluation of multimedia information retrieval systems. The group's interests also include areas such as large-scale and high performance text retrieval, Web information retrieval, Distributed and Peer-to-Peer retrieval, Intranet/Enterprise and Blog search, multilingual retrieval, and the development of novel adaptive interaction techniques. Our research preserves a strong emphasis on theoretically-driven, still practical solutions for large-scale document collections. The group maintains strong links with researchers in Machine Learning and Human-Computer Interaction, as well as with industry through knowledge and technology transfer. Members of the group have also been extensively involved in organising major conferences, workshops and summer schools in the area of information retrieval.

ECDL 2010:We are organising the 14th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries.