The 4th Dutch-Belgium Information Retrieval Workshop Arjen de Vries CWI, The Netherlands. Arjen.de.Vries@cwi.nl December 8th and 9th, 2003, the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam hosted the 4th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval workshop (DIR 2003). The primary aim of the Dutch-Belgium Information Retrieval workshops is to provide a meeting place where researchers from the Netherlands and Belgium (and neighbouring countries) exchange information and present new research developments in the domain of information retrieval and related disciplines. The workshops are student-oriented events, where an important goal is to give PhD students a chance to present their work in an informal setting, to gain experience and prepare for a future performance at larger conferences. Another goal is to share results obtained on benchmark initiatives TREC, INEX and CLEF with those who did not get to attend those workshops. The Programme Committee consisted of Anne Diekema (Syracuse University), Theo Huibers (University of Twente and KPMG), Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam), Arjen de Vries (CWI), Erik Tjong Kim Sang (University of Antwerp), and, Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam). The DIR workshop series started in 2000, as an event collocated with Ruud van der Pol s PhD defense, where Karl J
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