Advances in Information Retrieval: 42nd European Conference on IR Research, Ecir 2020, Lisbon, Portugal, April 14-17, 2020, Proceedings, Part I

This two-volume set LNCS 12035 and 12036 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 42nd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2020, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in April 2020.*

The 55 full papers presented together with 8 reproducibility papers, 46 short papers, 10 demonstration papers, 12 invited CLEF papers, 7 doctoral consortium papers, 4 workshop papers, and 3 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 457 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named:

Part I: deep learning I
entities
evaluation
recommendation
information extraction
deep learning II
retrieval
multimedia
deep learning III
queries
IR - general
question answering, prediction, and bias
and deep learning IV.

Part II: reproducibility papers
short papers
demonstration papers
CLEF organizers lab track
doctoral consortium papers
workshops
and tutorials.

*Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this conference was held virtually.