Advances in Information Retrieval : 24th BCS IRSG European Colloquium on IR Research Glasgow UK March 25–27 2002 Proceedings 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