 | ECIR'23: 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) Radisson Blu Hotel Dublin, Ireland, April 2-6, 2023 |
| Conference website | https://ecir2023.org/ |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir23 |
| Workshop submission deadline | September 19, 2022 |
| Full paper abstract registration (required) | September 30, 2022 |
| Full paper submission | October 7, 2022 |
| Short paper abstract registration (required) | October 14, 2022 |
| Short/Demonstrations/Reproducibility paper submission deadline | October 21, 2022 |
| Tutorial submission deadline | November 10, 2022 |
| Workshop notifications | November 11, 2022 |
| Full/Short/Demo/Reproducibility paper notifications | December 12, 2022 |
| Tutorial notifications | December 15, 2022 |
| Industry paper submission deadline | January 9, 2023 |
ECIR 2023 Call for Papers
The 45th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2023) is the annual premier European forum for the presentation of new research results in the broadly conceived area of Information Retrieval (IR).
The general and program chairs invite those working in areas related to information retrieval to submit original, high-impact papers for review. ECIR 2023 is seeking high-quality submissions addressing any innovative research of direct and indirect relevance to information retrieval in a broad sense. We wish to highlight significant contributions addressing the main challenges of providing effective search and retrieval, but also the related and equally important issues of multimedia and multi-modal content management, user interaction, large-scale search, machine learning, and societal and technical challenges.
Since 1978, ECIR provides an opportunity for both young and established researchers to present research papers reporting new, unpublished, and innovative research results. Traditionally, ECIR has had a strong student focus and papers whose sole or main author is a postgraduate student or postdoctoral researcher are especially welcome.
ECIR 2023 is planned to be held as a physical conference (with support for remote attendance) from the 2nd to the 6th of April 2023 in Dublin, Ireland.
Topics of Interest
ECIR 2023 encourages the submission of high-quality and original papers on the theory, experimentation, and practice of information retrieval and interaction; this primarily includes textual information but could also include visual, audio, and multi-modal information. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- User aspects, including information interaction, contextualisation, personalisation, simulation, characterisation, and behaviours;
- System and foundational aspects, including retrieval models and architectures, content analysis and classification, recommendation algorithms, query processing and ranking, efficiency and scalability;
- Machine learning, deep learning and neural models, natural language processing, and graph models applied to information retrieval and interaction;
- Applications, such as web search, recommender systems, web and social media apps, professional and domain-specific search, novel interfaces to search tools, intelligent search, and conversational agents;
- Evaluation research, including new metrics and novel methods for the measurement and evaluation of retrieval systems, users, and/or applications;
- New social and technical challenges, such as bias, ethics, fake news and hate speech, wearable devices and neuroinformatics; and
- Any other topic, of direct or indirect relevance to the theory, experimentation, and practice of information retrieval and interaction, in any medium or modality
Full paper track
The Full Paper Track provides the opportunity for researchers to present their state-of-the-art research in Information Retrieval, which makes, or has the potential to make, a significant contribution to the field.
Full paper track details
- Full papers are up to 12 pages in length plus additional pages for references. Appendices count toward the pagelimit.
- Full papers will be refereed through double-blind peer review, with an initial first stage review followed with a second stage of discussion led by a meta-reviewer.
- Selected full papers from ECIR 2023 will be published in a special issue of the Information Retrieval Journal in early 2024.
Full paper track dates
- Full paper abstract submission: September 30, 2022, 11:59pm (AoE)
- Full paper submission: October 7, 2022, 11:59pm (AoE)
- Full paper notification: December 12, 2022
- Main conference: April 3-5, 2023
Program committee chairs
- Fabio Crestani (Universitá della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland)
- Lorraine Goeuriot (Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
- Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, Netherland)
- Contact: ecir23-pc-chairs at easychair.org
Short Paper Track
The Short Paper Track calls for original contributions presenting novel, thought-provoking ideas and addressing innovative application areas within the field of Information Retrieval. The inclusion of promising (preliminary) results is encouraged but not required. Papers that stimulate and promote discussion are particularly encouraged.
Short paper track details
- Short papers are up to 6 pages in length plus additional pages for references. Appendices count toward the pagelimit.
- Short papers will be refereed through double-blind peer review.
Short paper track dates
- Short paper abstract submission: October 14, 2022, 11:59pm (AoE)
- Short paper submission: October 21, 2022, 11:59pm (AoE)
- Short paper notification: December 12, 2022
- Main conference: April 3-5, 2023
Short paper track chairs
- Hideo Joho (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
- Maria Maistro (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Contact: ecir23-short at easychair.org
Demonstration Paper Track
The Demo track provides the opportunity for researchers to present their research prototypes and operational systems which they wish to share with the community, obtain feedback from experts, and exchange knowledge on implementing and developing such systems.
Demo paper track details
- Submissions should clearly define their purpose, scope, and audience of the demo.
- All submissions should provide a URL to a live online version of their demo or, alternatively, provide a URL to a video showcasing the main features of their demo.
- Demonstrations that make their source code freely available are especially encouraged.
- Demo papers are up to 4 pages in length plus additional pages for references. Appendices count toward the pagelimit.
- Demo papers will be refereed through single-blind peer review (demo submissions are not anonymous).
Demo paper track dates
- Demo paper submission: October 21, 2022, 11:59pm (AoE)
- Demo paper notification: December 12, 2022
- Main conference: April 3-5, 2023
Demo paper track chairs
- Frank Hopfgartner (University of Sheffield, UK)
- Liting Zhou (Dublin City University, Ireland)
- Contact: ecir23-demo at easychair.org
Reproducibility Paper Track
The Reproducibility Paper Track calls for the submission of papers that repeat, reproduce, generalize, and analyze prior work. In particular, we solicit replicability (different team, same experimental setup) and reproducibility (different team, different experimental setup) papers.
Reproducibility is key for establishing research to be reliable, referenceable, and extensible for the future. Emphasize your motivation for selecting the paper/papers, the process of how results have been attempted to be reproduced (successful or not), the communication that was necessary to gather all information, the potential difficulties encountered, and the result of the process. A successful reproduction of the work is not a requirement, but it is crucial to provide a precise and rigid evaluation of the process to allow lessons to be learned for the future.
Reproducibility paper track details
- Consistently use the terminology of the ACM Artifact Review and Badging guidelines (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/artifact-review-badging) to avoid confusion.
- Submissions from the same authors – i.e., repeatability (same team, same experimental setup) papers – of the reproduced experiments will not be accepted.
- Reproducibility papers are up to 12 pages in length plus additional pages for references. Appendices count toward the pagelimit.
- We expect authors to provide a link where all materials required for repeating the tests performed, including code, data, and clear instructions on how to run the experiments can be downloaded by the reviewers.
Reproducibility papers will be refereed through single-blind peer review (reproducibility submissions are not anonymous).- Reproducibility papers will be refereed through double-blind peer review, with an initial first stage review followed with a second stage of discussion led by a meta-reviewer.
Reproducibility paper track dates
- Reproducibility paper submission: October 21, 2022, 11:59pm (AoE)
- Reproducibility paper notification: December 12, 2022
- Main conference: April 3-5, 2023
Reproducibility paper track chairs
- Leif Azzopardi (University of Strathclyde, UK)
- Contact: ecir23-reproducibility at easychair.org
Submission Guidelines
Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word (to be found at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines), for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in the camera-ready version of accepted papers (https://www.springer.com/gp/authors-editors/orcid).
All submissions must be written in English. All papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecir2023).
In addition, the corresponding author of each accepted paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the paper has been submitted, changes relating to its authorship cannot be made.
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The proceedings will be distributed to all delegates at the conference. Accepted papers will have to be presented at the conference – and at least one author will be required to register. ECIR intends to publish the proceedings as open access if sufficient funding is acquired.
Dual submission policy
Papers submitted to ECIR 2022 should be substantially different from papers that have been previously published, or accepted for publication, or that are under review at other venues. Exceptions to this rule are:
- Submission is permitted for papers presented or to be presented at conferences or workshops without proceedings.
- Submission is permitted for papers that have previously been made available as a technical report (e.g., in institutional archives or preprint archives like arXiv). However, we discourage this since it places anonymity at risk; in particular, please do not publish your paper at arXiv and submit to ECIR at the same time, some days before, or during the reviewing period of ECIR.
- If your paper already is available as a technical report:
- You might not want to use the exact same title and abstract for your ECIR submission (in case of acceptance at ECIR, the title of your submission still might be changed “back”).
- Please do not cite your technical report and make some effort to avoid any issues that may harm the double-blindness of your submission. Reviewers will receive guidance that ask them to refrain from trying to break blindness if at all possible too, but be aware that the availability of an available technical report for an ECIR submission can cause issues.
Ethics and professional conduct
ECIR 2023 expects authors (as well as the PC, and the organizing committee) to adhere to accepted standards on ethics and professionalism, such as:
- The ACM's Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct,
- The ACM's Conflict of Interest Policy.
- The ACM's Policy on Plagiarism, Misrepresentation, and Falsification.
- The ACM's Policy Against Harassment.
- or similar other standards of professional conduct.