ECIR 2027 — 49th European Conference on Information Retrieval

ECIR 2027, the 49th European Conference on Information Retrieval, runs 21-25 March 2027 at Southampton Football Club in Southampton, UK, organised by the University of Southampton for the BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group. ECIR is Europe's flagship IR venue and the field's main proving ground outside SIGIR, and its structure is unusually broad for a research conference: alongside full and short papers it runs dedicated Reproducibility, Resource, Demo, IR for Good and Industry Day tracks, plus tutorials on the opening Sunday and a full workshop day on the closing Thursday. That reproducibility track matters in a period when retrieval-augmented generation results are widely reported and rarely replicated. The organising team is led by Haiming Liu (University of Southampton) and Frank Hopfgartner (Universität Koblenz), with Dame Wendy Hall as honorary chair and Julie Dixon (University of Aberdeen).

• Workshop proposal deadlineSep 7, 2026
• Full paper abstract deadlineSep 21, 2026
• Full paper submission deadlineOct 5, 2026
• Reproducibility abstract and short paper submission deadlineOct 12, 2026
• Demo, tutorial, doctoral consortium, industry and resource paper deadlineNov 2, 2026
• Notification to authorsDec 7, 2026
• Early-bird registrationDec 21, 2026
• Regular registration deadlineFeb 8, 2027

Date

March 21–25, 2027

Location

Southampton Football Club, United Kingdom

Format

In-Person

Event Type

Conference

Status

Upcoming

Pricing

Paid

Organizer

BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group (BCS-IRSG)

Added

Aug 6, 2026

Updated

Aug 6, 2026

• ✓Search and RAG engineering leads
• ✓Applied scientists working on retrieval and ranking
• ✓Knowledge management and enterprise search owners
• ✓Heads of AI in European enterprises and public bodies
• ✓Information retrieval academics and PhD students
• ✓Product managers for search and discovery

Every enterprise now runs a retrieval system whether it calls it that or not — the index behind the chatbot is the product. ECIR is where you find out which retrieval architectures survive independent evaluation, and its Reproducibility track exists precisely to separate benchmark claims from results that hold. For a European technology leader, the Industry Day and Resource tracks give reusable datasets and evaluation harnesses to take home, the tutorial day is genuine team training, and the venue is a short flight from most of Europe rather than a transatlantic budget line.

• ✓Full paper and short paper tracks
• ✓Reproducibility track
• ✓Resource paper track and Demo track
• ✓IR for Good track
• ✓Industry Day presentations
• ✓Tutorial day (21 March) and dedicated workshop day (25 March)
• ✓Doctoral Consortium

• ★A standing Reproducibility track — a rarity among AI conferences, and the one that matters most while RAG benchmark claims outpace replication
• ★An Industry Day track and a separate Resource-paper track, so practitioners get datasets and deployable artefacts rather than only method papers
• ★Europe's flagship IR venue in its 49th edition, giving it the longest continuous evaluation-methodology lineage outside SIGIR
• ★Bookended by a tutorial day (Sunday 21 March) and a full workshop day (Thursday 25 March), so a three-day trip can be all teaching or all frontier work
• ★Honorary chair Dame Wendy Hall anchors it to the Web Science community rather than pure ranking research

Rates are not published on the conference site as of August 2026, but the registration calendar is: author and early registration close 21 December 2026, and regular registration closes 8 February 2027. Expect BCS-IRSG member, non-member and student tiers to be posted alongside the programme.

When is ECIR 2027?

ECIR 2027 takes place March 21–25, 2027 in Southampton, United Kingdom.

Where is ECIR 2027 held?

ECIR 2027 is held in Southampton, United Kingdom. The event format is in-person.

What is the ECIR 2027 submission deadline?

The next ECIR 2027 deadline is workshop proposal deadline on Sep 7, 2026. Remaining dates: Full paper abstract deadline — Sep 21, 2026; Full paper submission deadline — Oct 5, 2026; Reproducibility abstract and short paper submission deadline — Oct 12, 2026; Demo, tutorial, doctoral consortium, industry and resource paper deadline — Nov 2, 2026; Notification to authors — Dec 7, 2026; Early-bird registration — Dec 21, 2026; Regular registration deadline — Feb 8, 2027.

How much does ECIR 2027 cost?

ECIR 2027 is paid. Rates are not published on the conference site as of August 2026, but the registration calendar is: author and early registration close 21 December 2026, and regular registration closes 8 February 2027. Expect BCS-IRSG member, non-member and student tiers to be posted alongside the programme.

Who should attend ECIR 2027?

ECIR 2027 is aimed at Search and RAG engineering leads, Applied scientists working on retrieval and ranking, Knowledge management and enterprise search owners, Heads of AI in European enterprises and public bodies, Information retrieval academics and PhD students, Product managers for search and discovery.

What topics does ECIR 2027 cover?

ECIR 2027 covers Information retrieval and ranking, Retrieval-augmented generation, Neural and dense retrieval, Reproducibility and evaluation, Recommender systems, Conversational and interactive search, IR for social good, Resources, datasets and benchmarks, Industry applications of IR.

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