This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th European Conference on IR Research
ECIR 2016 held in Padua Italy in March 2016. The 42 full papers and 28 poster papers
presented together with 3 keynote talks and 6 demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and
selected from 284 submissions. The volume contains the outcome of 4 workshops as well as 4
tutorial papers in addition. Being the premier European forum for the presentation of new
research results in the field of Information Retrieval ECIR features a wide range of topics
such as: social context and news machine learning question answering ranking evaluation
methodology probalistic modeling evaluation issues multimedia and collaborative filtering
and many more.
