Advances in Information Retrieval

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the38th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2016, held in Padua, Italy, in March2016.

The 42 full papers and 28 poster papers presentedtogether with 3 keynote talks and 6 demonstration papers, were carefullyreviewed and selected from 284 submissions. The volume contains the outcome of4 workshops as well as 4 tutorial papers in addition. Being t...