Proceedings of the 7th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop

This volume contains the papers presented at IIR 2016 (the 7th Italian Infor- mation Retrieval Workshop) held on 30-31 May, 2016, in Venice, Italy. The purpose of the Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR) is to provide a forum for stimulating and disseminating research in Information Retrieval, where Italian researchers (especially young ones) and researchers affiliated with Italian institutions can network and discuss their research results in an informal way. The general chair of IIR 2016 was Salvatore Orlando (Universit`a Ca' Fos- cari Venezia), and the co-chairs of the program committee were Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio (Universit`a di Padova) and Franco Maria Nardini (ISTI-CNR, Pisa). For this edition, the program committee accepted 26 papers for oral presen- tation and the final program also included four invited talks by Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di Milano), Alessandro Moschitti (Qatar Computing Research In- stitute, HBKU), Giorgio Satta (Universit`a di Padova), and Rossano Venturini (Universit`a di Pisa). The program co-chairs wish to thank all the members of the Program Com- mittee (see below) as well as the local organizers Francesco Lettich (Universit`a Ca' Foscari Venezia) and Claudio Silvestri (Universit`a Ca' Foscari Venezia), the webmaster Salvatore Trani (ISTI-CNR, Pisa), and the publicity chair, Cristina Muntean, (ISTI-CNR, Pisa).