This book constitutes the proceedings of the 38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016, held in Padua, Italy, in March 2016. The 42 full papers, 28 poster papers. $ workshops and 4 tutorials papers and 6 demonstrations presented together with 3 keynotes in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 284 submissions.
ECIR provides a wide range of folliwjng topics: social context and news, machine learning, question answering, ranking, evaluation methodology, probalistic modeling, evaluation issues, multimedia and collaborative filtering and many more.
Additionally, ECIR 2016 hosted 4 tutorials and 4 workshops covering a range of information retrieval topics.
The workshops were:
- 3rd International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval (BIR2016);
-1st International Workshop on Modeling, Learning and Mining for
Cross/Multilinguality (MultiLingMine 2016);
-ProActive Information Retrieval: Anticipating Users' Information Needs (ProAct IR);
-1st International Workshop on Recent Trends in News Information Retrieval (NewsIR'16).
The following ECIR 2016 tutorials were selected:
- Collaborative Information Retrieval: Concepts, Models and Evaluation;
- Group Recommender Systems: State of the Art, Emerging Aspects and Techniques,
and Research Challenges;
- Living Labs for Online Evaluation: From Theory to Practice (LiLa2016);
- Real-Time Bidding based Display Advertising: Mechanisms and Algorithms (RTBMA 2016).
