The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the main
European research conference for the presentation of new results in the field of
information retrieval
Information retrieval (IR) in computing and information science is the process of obtaining information system resources that are relevant to an information need from a collection of those resources. Searches can be based on full-text or other co ...
(IR).
It is organized by the
Information Retrieval Specialist Group The Information Retrieval Specialist Group (IRSG) or BCS-IRSG is a Specialist Group of the British Computer Society concerned with supporting communication between researchers and practitioners, promoting the use of Information Retrieval (IR) method ...
of the
British Computer Society
Sir Maurice Wilkes served as the first President of BCS in 1957
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, known as the British Computer Society until 2009, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in infor ...
(BCS-IRSG).
The event started its life as the ''Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research'' in 1978 and was
held in the UK each year until 1998 when it was hosted in Grenoble, France. Since then the venue has
alternated between the United Kingdom and continental Europe. To mark the metamorphosis
from a small informal colloquium to a major event in the IR research calendar, the
BCS-IRSG later renamed the event to ''European Conference on Information Retrieval''. In recent years,
ECIR has continued to grow and has become the major European forum for the discussion
of research in the field of Information Retrieval.
Some of the topics dealt with include:
* IR models, techniques, and algorithms
* IR applications
* IR system architectures
* Test and evaluation methods for IR
*
Natural Language Processing
Natural language processing (NLP) is an interdisciplinary subfield of linguistics, computer science, and artificial intelligence concerned with the interactions between computers and human language, in particular how to program computers to pro ...
for IR
* Distributed IR
* Multimedia and cross-media IR
Time and Location
The ECIR is generally held in Spring, near the Easter weekend. A list of locations and planned venues are presented below.
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Dublin, 202
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Stavanger
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, 202
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Lucca (online only)
2021*
Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...
(online only), 202
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Cologne, 201
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Grenoble, 201
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Aberdeen, 201
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Padova, Italy
Padua ( ; it, Padova ; vec, Pàdova) is a city and ''comune'' in Veneto, northern Italy. Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice. It is the capital of the province of Padua. It is also the economic and communications hub of the ...
, 201
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Vienna, Austria, 201
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Amsterdam, Netherlands, 201
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Moscow, Russia
Moscow ( , American English, US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia. The city stands on t ...
, 201
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Barcelona, Spain
Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...
, 201
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Dublin, Ireland
Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 cen ...
, 201
*
Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes ( ) is a city and the largest settlement in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London. At the 2021 Census, the population of its urban area was over . The River Great Ouse forms its northern boundary; a tributary ...
, 201
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Toulouse, 200
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Glasgow, 200
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Rome, 200
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London, 200
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Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, 200
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Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, Sunderland, 200
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Pisa
Pisa ( , or ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, central Italy, straddling the Arno just before it empties into the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa. Although Pisa is known worldwide for its leaning tower, the cit ...
, 200
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Glasgow, 200
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Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it th ...
, 2001* (organized by GMD)
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Cambridge, 2000* (organized by Microsoft Research)
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Glasgow, 1999*
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Grenoble, 1998*
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Aberdeen, 1997*
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Manchester, 1996*
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Crewe
Crewe () is a railway town and civil parish in the unitary authority of Cheshire East in Cheshire, England. The Crewe built-up area had a total population of 75,556 in 2011, which also covers parts of the adjacent civil parishes of Willaston ...
, 1995* (organized by Manchester Metropolitan University)
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Drymen, Scotland, 1994* (organized by Strathclyde University)
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Glasgow, 1993* (organized by Strathclyde University)
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Lancaster, 1992*
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Lancaster, 1991*
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Huddersfield, 1990*
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Huddersfield, 1989*
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Huddersfield, 1988*
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Glasgow, 1987*
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Glasgow, 1986*
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Bradford
Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...
, 1985*
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Bradford
Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 ...
, 1984*
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Sheffield, 1983*
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Sheffield, 1982*
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Birmingham, 1981*
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Leeds, 1980*
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Leeds, 1979*
*as the Annual Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research
External links
Official page at the website of the British Computer Society
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