We are happy to announce that CWI researchers Roberto Cornacchia and Arjen de Vries have won the Best Student Paper Award at the 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) in Rome for their paper 'A Parameterised Search Engine'. ECIR is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of information retrieval.
For more information, please download the paper here, or visit the website of ECIR 2007.