Advances in information retrieval : 36th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 13-16, 2014

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 36th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2014, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2014. The 33 full papers, 50 poster papers and 15 demonstrations presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 288 submissions.

The papers are organized in the following topical sections: evaluation, recommendation, optimization, semantics, aggregation, queries, mining social media, digital libraries, efficiency, and information retrieval theory.

Also included are 3 tutorial and 4 workshop presentations.