Proceedings of the 8th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop

This volume contains the papers presented at IIR'17: 8th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop held on June 05-07, 2017 in Lugano, Switzerland. The purpose of the Italian Information Retrieval (IIR) workshop series is to provide a forum for stimulating and disseminating research in information retrieval, where Italian researchers (especially young ones) and researchers a liated with Italian institutions can network and discuss their research results in an informal way. Previously IIR workshops took place in Venice (2016), Cagliari (2015), Rome (2014), Pisa (2013), Bari (2012), Milan (2011) and Padua (2010).