London, 22nd September 2008

This year's Symposium provided a forum where future directions of information access were presented and discussed in an open and friendly environment. The programme was packed with early career researchers with novel and interesting research ideas which they shared during in interactive sessions throughout the day.

• Introduction/Preface to Proceedings (PDF)

The list of accepted papers presented at the Symposium was:

• Modeling the Evolution of Context in Information Retrieval
• Integrating Memory Context into Personal Information Re-finding
• Automatically Adapting the Context of an Intranet Query
• Towards a better understanding of language model information retrieval
• An Investigation into Query Throughput and Load Balance Using Grid IR
• Building a Distributed Digital Library System Enhancing the Role of Metadata
• Testing a Genre-Enabled Application: A Preliminary Assessment
• Children's information retrieval: beyond examining search strategies and interfaces
• Management and analysis of chinese database extracted knowledge
• Selective Erasers: A Theoretical Framework for Representing Documents Inspired by Quantum Theory