The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) is the prime European forum for the presentation of original research in the field of Information Retrieval.

ECIR 2026 is seeking original, high-quality submissions addressing innovative research in the broad field Information Retrieval. ECIR 2026 wishes to highlight significant contributions addressing the main challenges of providing effective search and retrieval, but also the related and equally important issues of recommender systems and interaction, multimedia and multi-modal content management, user interaction, large-scale search and recommendation, machine learning, and corresponding societal and technical challenges.

Topics of Interest

We welcome submissions on any topic relevant to the general field of Information Retrieval, including those mentioned in the Call for Full papers for ECIR 2026.

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.

• 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 page limit.
• Demo papers will be refereed through single-blind peer review (demo submissions are not anonymous).

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 their 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=ecir2026

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 by one of the authors in person – and at least one author for each accepted contribution will be required to register and attend.

Dual Submission Policy

Papers submitted to ECIR 2026 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 only as a technical report (e.g., in institutional archives or preprint archives like arXiv).

Ethics and Professional Conduct

ECIR 2026 expects authors (as well as the PC, and the organising committee) to adhere to accepted standards on ethics and professionalism in our community, namely:

• The ACM's Policy on Authorship
• 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