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.
@article{arxiv.1812.04265,
title = {Proceedings of the 17th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop},
author = {Alex Brandsen and Anne Dirkson and Wessel Kraaij and Wout Lamers and Suzan Verberne and Hugo de Vos and Gineke Wiggers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.04265},
year = {2018}
}