Proceedings of the 17th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop

This volume contains the papers presented at DIR 2018: 17th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR) held on November 23, 2018 in Leiden. DIR aims to serve as an international platform (with a special focus on the Netherlands and Belgium) for exchange and discussions on research & applications in the field of information retrieval and related fields. The committee accepted 4 short papers presenting novel work, 3 demo proposals, and 8 compressed contributions (summaries of papers recently published in international journals and conferences). Each submission was reviewed by at least 3 programme committee members.

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