This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th European Conference on IR Research
ECIR 2017 held in Aberdeen UK in April 2017. The 36 full papers and 47 poster papers
presented together with 5 Abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected from 248 submissions.
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: IR Theory and Practice
Deep Learning and IR Web and Social Media IR User Aspects IR System Architectures Content
Representation and Processing Evaluation Multimedia and Cross-Media IR Applications.
