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The attendees of the workshop considered information retrieval research in a range of areas chosen to give broad coverage of topic areas that engage information retrieval researchers. Those areas are retrieval models, cross-lingual retrieval Web search, user modeling, filtering, topic detection and tracking, classification, summarization, question answering, metasearch, distributed retrieval multimedia retrieval information extraction, as well as testbed requirements for future work. The potential use of language modeling techniques in these areas was also discussed.