Bøger af Craig Macdonald

The Magical, Mysterious Tree House is exactly what the title implies. A tree house where magical and mysterious events occur compliments of the mistress of the woods. However, not only do magical mysterious events occur, but real-life adventures also do. Our group of youngsters are continually supplied with challenges, and as a team, they overcome each challenge. They also see some amazing sights!Do you enjoy childhood fantasy? I know I do! If you do, you will greatly enjoy reading this book. Not only does it supply fantasy, but it gives a peek through a window back in time to a simpler, more carefree and enjoyable time. Baby boomers will enjoy reading this and recalling their fondest childhood memories. As they read, they will be transported back in time to their childhoods. Hopefully, this will inspire grandparents and great-grandparents to tell their grandchildren stories of their childhoods.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th annual European Conference on Information Retrieval Research, ECIR 2008, held in Glasgow, UK, in March/April 2008.The 33 revised full papers and 19 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited lectures and 32 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 139 full article submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation, Web IR, social media, cross-lingual information retrieval, theory, video, representation, wikipedia and e-books, as well as expert search.