ECIR 2027 — 49th European Conference on Information Retrieval

ECIR, the European Conference on Information Retrieval, holds its 49th edition March 21-25, 2027 in Southampton, United Kingdom, hosted by the University of Southampton at the Southampton Football Club (St Mary's Stadium) venue. It is Europe's leading forum for research in information retrieval and increasingly a machine-learning and NLP venue in its own right.

Modern IR is dominated by neural and generative methods, and ECIR's programme reflects that: neural ranking and dense retrieval, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, recommender systems, conversational and multimodal search, evaluation and fairness. The conference features full and short papers, a reproducibility track, workshops, tutorials, a doctoral consortium and an industry day, with proceedings published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

For attendees, ECIR is a well-regarded, community-focused conference that pairs rigorous peer review with an approachable scale, making it a strong venue for presenting search-and-ranking work built on contemporary machine learning. The Southampton location and late-March timing make it a convenient European stop in the first-half calendar.