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Report on ECIR 2016: 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval

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The 38th European Conference on Information Retrieval took place from the 20th to the 23rd of March 2016 in Padua, Italy. This report summarizes the conference in terms of the presented keynotes, scientific and social programme, industry day, tutorials, workshops and student support.

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    cover image ACM SIGIR Forum
    ACM SIGIR Forum  Volume 50, Issue 1
    June 2016
    99 pages
    ISSN:0163-5840
    DOI:10.1145/2964797
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    Published: 27 June 2016
    Published in SIGIR Volume 50, Issue 1

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