Organisers - Area Coordinators

• Formal Models, Language Models, Fusion/Combination
  Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow
  John Lafferty, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Text Representation and Indexing, XML and Metadata
  Airi Salminen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
  Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg, Germany
• Performance, Compression, Scalability, Architectures, Mobile Applications
  Chris Buckley, SabIR research, USA
  Justin Zobel, RMIT University, Australia
• Web IR, Intranet/Enterprise Search, Citation and Link Analysis, Digital Libraries, Distributed IR
  Andrei Broder, IBM Research, USA
  David Hawking, CSIRO, Australia
• Cross-language Retrieval, Multilingual Retrieval, Machine Translation for IR
  Ari Pirkola, University of Tampere, Finland
  Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA
• Video and Image Access, Audio and Speech Retrieval, Music Retrieval
  Hong-Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research, China
  R. Manmatha, University of Massachusetts, USA
• Machine Learning for IR, Text Data Mining, Clustering, Text Categorization
  Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
  Wai Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  David Hull, Clairvoyance, USA
  Yoram Singer, The Hebrew University, Israel
• Topic Detection and Tracking, Content-Based Filtering, Collaborative Filtering, Agents
  Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
  John Riedl, University of Minnesota, USA
• Summarization, Question Answering, Natural Language Processing for IR, Information Extraction, Lexical Acquisition
  Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden
  Charlie Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Interfaces, Visualization, Interactive IR, User Models, User Studies
  Pia Borlund, Royal School of Librarianship and Information Science, Denmark
  Nick Belkin, Rutgers University, USA
• Specialized Applications of IR, including Genomic IR, IR in Software Engineering, and IR for Chemical Structures
  Bill Hersh, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
  Hugh E. Williams, RMIT University, Australia
• Evaluation, Building Test Collections, Experimental Design and Metrics
  Donna Harman, NIST, USA
  Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Coordinators-at-Large
  John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK
  Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina, USA
  Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia