The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval 2026

ECIR is Europe’s premier forum for original research in Information Retrieval. ECIR 2026 brings together researchers, practitioners, and industry experts to discuss advances shaping search, recommendation, and generative information access. The conference has a strong tradition of supporting early-career researchers and offers a broad program covering tutorials, workshops, industry interaction, and core conference sessions on search, recommendation, user behavior, evaluation, and trustworthy IR.

Search and ranking; retrieval models; query and content analysis; retrieval-augmented generation (RAG); recommender systems; user aspects in IR; human-AI collaboration; personalization and contextualization; system aspects, efficiency and scalability; conversational search and recommender systems; explainability and accountability; machine learning and large language models for IR and recommendation; applications such as web, social, professional, multimodal and conversational search; evaluation methods, benchmarks, and metrics; fairness, misinformation, privacy-aware and trustworthy IR.