The Annual BCS-IRSG European Conference on Information Retrieval is a forum for young researchers in the area of Information Retrieval with a vision to: provide a supportive forum for which their research can be presented, discussed and debated; provide feedback from seasoned Information Retrieval researchers; and facilitate a large student audience as well as established researchers by ensuring that the costs are minimal.

• ECIR 2011 will be be held at Dublin, Irland on the 2011-04-21.
• ECIR Conferences and Colloquia of the past present and future
• If you are interested in hosting ECIR, you can download the bid document guidelines
• See the announcements section for the next call

ECIR reviewing guidelines

At a recent committee meeting (Dec 2010), we considered the reviewing process for papers, posters, workshops and tutorials. The reviewing process is set out in the call for Bids. The committee confirmed that these requirements ensure that a proper scientific review process is maintained - as demonstrated by the success of ECIR. Groups or individuals interested in bidding for ECIR in future should contact the chair of the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) for more information or advice.

ECIR Review Workshop 2006

The ECIR workshop proceedings are now available. This report contains a summary of the presentations, survey results, and the discussion during the workshop and includes the guidelines for writing good ECIR papers.

The Draft ECIR Paper Guidelines are also available. This report contains the guidelines for writing good ECIR papers that are theoretical, conceptual, experimental, applications, and/or user oriented, in nature.

ECIR 2010 Industry Day

Industry day presentations can now be watched and available below.