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.