Back from ECIR 2026 in Delft

Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I have just returned from ECIR 2026, held in Delft, The Netherlands, from 29 March to 2 April 2026.

This year, I had the great pleasure of serving as a Short Paper Chair alongside Sean MacAvaney and Mohammad Aliannejadi. The short paper track received 108 submissions, of which 37 were accepted (≈34% acceptance rate). I am really happy how soothly our team handled the process.

A fun editorial milestone: The conference proceedings were published in four parts—which means, we now have 4 DOIs as co-editors :-). (All short papers appear in Volume II, though.)

I also had the pleasure to serve as a mentor at the ECIR 2026 Doctoral Consortium, working with two excellent PhD students.

The main conference took place in Lijm & Cultuur—a memorable and refreshingly unusual venue compared to the standard conference venues. Delft was nice, too: while it welcomed me with very Dutch rain, it rewarded us with steadily improving weather over the days.

Ricardo Campos, Adam Jatowt, Yanyan Lan, Mohammad Aliannejadi, Christine Bauer, Sean MacAvaney, Avishek Anand, Zhaochun Ren, Suzan Verberne, Nan Bai, Masoud Mansoury (2026). Advances in Information Retrieval, 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval, ECIR 2026, Delft, The Netherlands, March 29 – April 2, 2026, Proceedings, Parts I–IV.

Cite DOI Part I DOI Part II DOI Part III DOI Part IV ICORE 2026: A GGS 2021: A-

Short Paper Chair | Christine Bauer

Back from ECIR 2026 in Delft