The 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
20-24 July 2008, Singapore

Technical Review Committees & Reviewers

Senior Programme Committee
Program Committee
Additional Paper Reviewers

Poster and Demonstration Reviewers
Additional Poster and Demonstration Reviewers

Doctoral Consortium Committee

Mentor Committee
Tutorial Committee
Workshop Committee

Senior Programme Committee

Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, USA)
Shlomo Argamon (Illinois Institute of Technology,
USA)
Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Soumen Chakrabarti (Indian Institute of Technology,
India)
Hsin-Hsi Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Lee-Feng Chien (Google, Taiwan)
Gordon V. Cormack (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Nick Craswell (Microsoft, UK)
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands)
Edward Fox (Virginia Tech, USA)
Sanda Harabagiu (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
Donna Harman (NIST, USA)
Djoerd Hiemstra (University of Twente, The
Netherlands)
Thomas Hofmann (Google, Switerland)
Thorsten Joachims (Cornell University, USA)
Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Rosie Jones (Yahoo!, USA)
David Karger (MIT, USA)
Jaana Kek¨al¨ainen (University of Tampere, Finland)
Diane Kelly (University of North Carolina, USA)
Wai Lam (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Yoelle Maarek (Google, Israel )
Gary Marchionini (University of North Carolina,
USA)
Massimo Melucci (University of Padova, Italy)
Jan Pedersen (Yahoo!, USA)
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (Federal University of Minas
Gerais, Brasil )
Hae-Chang Rim (Korea University, Korea)
Stefan Rueger (The Open University, UK)
Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK)
Luo Si (Purdue University, USA)
Ian Soboroff (NIST, USA)
Ross Wilkinson (CSIRO, Austraila)
Hugh Williams (Microsoft, USA)
ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA)

 

Program Committee

Ghaleb M. Abdulla (Lawrence Livermore Lab, USA)
Maristella Agosti (University of Padova, Italy)
Per Ahlgren (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Helena Ahonen-Myka (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Eija Airio (University of Tampere, Finland)
Khalid Al-Kofahi (Thomson Corporation, USA)
James Allan (University of Massachusetts Amherst,
USA)
Gianni Amati (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy)
Einat Amitay (IBM Research, Haifa Lab, Israel)
Vo Anh (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Javed Aslam (Northeastern University, USA)
Fujii Atsushi (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Anne Aula (Google, Inc., USA)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research Barcelona,
Spain)
Mark Baillie (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Suhrid Balakrishnan (AT&T Labs Research, USA)
Krisztian Balog (University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands)
Roberto Basili (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Holger Bast (Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik,
Germany)
Micheline Beaulieu (University of Sheffield, UK)
Steve Beitzel (Telcordia Technologies, USA)
Joseph Carthy (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Jeong-Won Cha (Changwon National University,
Korea)
Kuang-Hua Chen (National Taiwan University,
Taiwan)
Zheng Chen (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Pu-Jen Cheng (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Abdur Chowdhury (Summize, USA)
Jennifer Chu-Carroll (IBM T.J. Watson Research
Center, USA)
Kenneth W. Church (Microsoft, USA)
Massimiliano Ciaramita (Yahoo! Research Barcelona,
Spain)
Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Carnegie Mellon University
/ University of Washington, USA)
Silviu Cucerzan (Microsoft Research, USA)
Krzysztof Czuba (Google, USA)
Ray D’Amore (The MITRE Corporation, USA)
Kareem Darwish (IBM Technology Development
Center, Cairo)
Gautam Das (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Fernando Das Neves (Snoop Consulting SRL,
Argentina)
Hal Daume III (University of Utah, USA)
Brian D. Davison (Lehigh University, USA)
Dina Demner-Fushman (United States National
Library of Medicine, USA)
Fernando Diaz (Yahoo!, Canada)
Anne R. Diekema (Syracuse University, USA)
Ajay Divakaran (Mitsubishi Electric Research
Laboratories, USA)
Boris Dobrov (Moscow State University, Russia)
Sandor Dominich (University of Pannonia, Hungary)
Debora Donato (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain)
Tamas Doszkocs (National Library of Medicine, USA)
J. Stephen Downie (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Georges Dupret (Yahoo! Research Latin America,
Chile)
Miles Efron (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Koji Eguchi (Kobe University, Japan)
Charles Elkan (University of California, San Diego,
USA)
Tamer Elsayed (University of Maryland, College Park,
USA)
Xin Fan (University of Sheffield, UK)
Hui Fang (Ohio State University, USA)
Nicola Ferro (University of Padua, Italy)
Marcus Fontoura (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Dmitriy Fradkin (Siemens, USA)
Martin Franz (IBM, USA)
Luanne Freund (University of British Columbia,
Canada)
Xin Fu (Google, Inc., USA)
Franciska de Jong (University of Twente, The
Netherlands)
Vanja Josifovski (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Marko Junkkari (University of Tampere, Finland)
Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands)
In-Ho Kang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Bo-Young Kang (Seoul National University, Korea)
Jussi Karlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer
Science, Sweden)
Gabriella Kazai (Microsoft Research, UK)
Heikki Keskustalo (University of Tampere, Finland)
Kimmo Kettunen (University of Tampere, Finland)
Kazuaki Kishida (Keio University, Japan)
Shmuel Klein (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Jeongwoo Ko (Oracle Corporation, USA)
Youngjoong Ko (Dong-A University, Korea)
Aleksander Kolcz (Microsoft, USA)
Wessel Kraaij (TNO, The Netherlands)
Don Kraft (Louisiana State University, USA)
Ravi Kumar (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Oren Kurland (Technion, Israel)
Kui-Lam Kwok (Queens College, City University of
New York, USA)
Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London,
UK)
Angela Monica Landoni (University of Strathclyde /
University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Birger Larsen (Royal School of Library and
Information Science, Denmark)
Victor Lavrenko (University of Edinburgh, Scotland,
UK)
Gary G. Lee (POSTECH, South Korea)
Miro Lehtonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Jochen L. Leidner (Thomson Corporation, USA)
Azzopardi Leif (University of Paisley, UK)
Anton Leuski (Institute for Creative Technologies,
USA)
Gina-Anne Levow (University of Chicago, USA)
Paul H. Lewis (University of Southampton, UK)
Tao Li (Florida International University, USA)
Xin Li (Applied Research, Yahoo! Inc., USA)
Qing Li (Arizona State University, China)
Liz Liddy (Syracuse University, USA)
Ee-Peng Lim (Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore)
King-Ip Lin (University of Memphis, USA)
Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland, USA)
Chin-Yew Lin (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Chuan-Jie Lin (National Taiwan Ocean University,
Taiwan)
Xia Lin (Drexel University, USA)
Shin-Jeng Lin (Le Moyne College, USA)
Krister Linden (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Ragnar Nordlie (Oslo University College, Norway)
Andreas Nuernberger (University of Magdeburg,
Germany)
Paul Ogilvie (mSpoke Inc. / Carnegie Mellon
University, USA)
J. Scott Olsson (University of Maryland, USA)
Nicola Orio (University of Padua, Italy)
Jahna Otterbacher (University of Cyprus, USA)
Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow, UK)
Gerhard Paass (Fraunhofer IAIS, Germany)
Chris D. Paice (Lancaster University, UK)
Gabriella Pasi (Universit`a degli Studi di Milano
Bicocca, Italy)
Virgil Pavlu (Northeastern University, US)
Jan Pedersen (Yahoo! Inc., USA)
Fuchun Peng (Yahoo!, USA)
Wen-Chih Peng (NCTU, Taiwan)
Jose Perez-Carballo (California State University, Los
Angeles, USA)
Vivien Petras (GESIS Social Science Information
Centre, Germany)
Jeremy Pickens (Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory,
USA)
Benjamin Piwowarski (Yahoo! Research Latin
America, Chile)
John Prager (IBM Research, USA)
Katharina Probst (Accenture Technology Labs, USA)
Dragomir R. Radev (University Michigan, USA)
Filip Radlinski (Cornell University, USA)
Vijay V. Raghavan (University of Louisiana at
Lafayette, USA)
Hema Raghavan (University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, USA)
Edie Rasmussen (University of British Columbia,
Canada)
Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology,
Austria)
Soo Young Rieh (University of Michigan, USA)
Knut Magne Risvik (Google, Norway)
Henning Rode (University of Twente, The
Netherlands)
Thomas Roelleke (Queen Mary University, UK)
Monica Rogati (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Dmitri Roussinov (Arizona State University, USA)
Patrick Ruch (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Miguel E. Ruiz (University of North Texas, USA)
Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Tetsuya Sakai (NewsWatch, Inc., Japan)
Jose San Pedro (University of Sheffield, UK)
Diana Santos (SINTEF ICT, Norway)
Jacques Savoy (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Ralf Schenkel (Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik,
Germany)
Falk Scholer (RMIT University, Australia)
m.c. schraefel (University of Southampton, UK
Ellen M. Voorhees (NIST, USA)
Arjen de Vries (CWI, The Netherlands)
Nina Wacholder (Rutgers University, USA)
Xuanhui Wang (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Jianqiang Wang (State University of New York at
Buffalo, USA)
Jun Wang (University College London, UK)
Carolyn Watters (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Bonnie L. Webber (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik,
Germany)
Ji-Rong Wen (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Thijs Westerveld (Teezir Search Solutions, The
Netherlands)
Ryen White (Microsoft Research, USA)
Maria A. Wimmer (University of Koblenz, Germany)
Xiayun Wu (Google, USA)
Wensi Xi (Google Inc., USA)
Zhichen Xu (Yahoo! Inc., USA)
Jinxi Xu (BBN, USA)
Murat Yakici (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Rong Yan (IBM TJ Watson Research, USA)
Christopher C. Yang (Drexel University / The Chinese
Ron Bekkerman (HP Labs, USA)
Mohammed Belkhatir (Monash University, Malaysia)
Nicholas Belkin (Rutgers University, USA)
Paul Bennett (Microsoft Research, USA)
Stefano Berretti (University of Firenze, Italy)
Krishna Bharat (Google, Inc., USA)
Catherine Blake (University of North Carolina, USA)
David Bodoff (University of Haifa, Israel)
Mohand Boughanem (Universite Paul Sabatier,
France)
Giorgio Brajnik (University of Udine, Italy)
Martin Braschler (Zurich University of Applied
Sciences, Switzerland)
Andrei Broder (Yahoo! Inc., USA)
Carla Brodley (Tufts University, USA)
Eric W. Brown (IBM Research, USA)
Chris Buckley (Sabir Research, USA)
Stefan Buettcher (Google, Inc., USA)
Katriina Bystrom (University College of Boras,
Sweden)
Deng Cai (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Yunbo Cao (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
David Carmel (IBM Haifa Research Labs, Israel)
Ben Carterette (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Johannes Fuernkranz (Technische Universtat
Darmstadt, Germany)
Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen,
Germany)
Sumio Fujita (Yahoo! Japan Corporation, Japan)
Patrick Gallinari (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie,
France)
Susan Gauch (University of Arkansas, USA)
Eric Gaussier (Universite Joseph Fourier, France)
Fatih Gelgi (Accord Institute for Education Research,
USA)
Rayid Ghani (Accenture Technology Labs, USA)
C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Mark Girolami (University of Glasgow, UK)
Melanie Gnasa (Fraunhofer-Institut IAIS, Germany)
Ayse Goker (City University London, UK)
Jade Goldstein-Stewart (United States Department of
Defense, USA)
Gene Golovchinsky (FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc.,
USA)
Yihong Gong (NEC Laboratories America, Inc., USA)
Julio Gonzalo (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a
Distancia, Spain)
Warren R. Greiff (The MITRE Corporation, USA)
David A. Grossman (IIT, USA)
Daniel Gruhl (IBM, USA)
Preben Hansen (Swedish Institute of Computer
Science, Sweden)
Daqing He (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Turid Hedlund (Swedish School of Economics and
Business Administration, Finland)
Andreas Henrich (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Monika Henzinger (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de
Lausanne, Switzerland)
Maureen Heymans (Google, USA)
Haym Hirsh (National Science Foundation, USA)
Hsiao-Wuen Hon (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Jimmy Huang (York University, Canada)
Zi Helen Huang (Open University, UK)
David Hull (Justsystem Evans Research, USA)
Peter Ingwersen (Royal School of Library and
Information Science, Denmark)
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis (New York University, USA)
Makoto Iwayama (Hitachi, Ltd., Japan)
Bernard Jansen (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Kalervo Jarvelin (University of Tampere, Finland)
Eric C. Jensen (Summize / Illinois Institute of
Technology, USA)
Jing Jiang (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Valentin Jijkoun (University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands)
Jose Joemon (University of Glasgow, UK)
Hideo Joho (University of Glasgow, UK)
Rosie Jones (Yahoo! Inc., USA)
David Losada (University of Santiago de Compostela,
Spain)
Natalia Loukachevitch (Moscow State University,
Russia)
Jie Lu (IBM Research, USA)
Robert W.P. Luk (Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
China)
Wei-Ying Ma (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Andrew MacFarlane (City University London, UK)
Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow, UK)
Joao Magalhaes (Imperial College London, UK)
Jonathan Mamou (IBM Haifa Research Labs, Israel)
Thomas Mandl (University of Hildesheim, Germany)
R. Manmatha (University of Massachusetts Amherst,
USA)
Christopher Manning (Stanford University, USA)
Stephane Marchand-Maillet (Vper Group - University
of Geneva, Switzerland)
Maarten Marx (University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands)
James Mayfield (JHU/APL, USA)
Robert McArthur (CSIRO, Australia)
J. Scott McCarley (IBM TJ Watson Research Center,
USA)
Paul McNamee (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Qiaozhu Mei (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Helen Meng (The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
China)
Donald Metzler (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Alessandro Micarelli (Roma Tre University, Italy)
Sebastian Michel (Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik,
Germany)
Sebastian Michel (EPFL, Switzerland)
Einat Minkov (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Gilad Mishne (Yahoo!, USA)
Mandar Mitra (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Vibhu Mittal (Google, USA)
Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine, Italy)
Alistair Moffat (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Pedro J. Moreno (Google Inc., USA)
Josiane Mothe (IRIT, France)
Isabelle Moulinier (Thomson Legal and Regulatory,
USA)
Edleno Moura (Universidade Federal do Amazonas,
Brazil)
Henning Mueller (Service for medical informatics,
Switzerland)
Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain)
Seung-Hoon Na (POSTECH, Republic of Korea)
Marc Najork (Microsoft Research, USA)
Wolfgang Nejdl (L3S and University of Hannover,
Germany)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada)
Zaiqing Nie (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Hinrich Schuetze (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
D. Sculley (Tufts University, USA)
Pavel Serdyukov (University of Twente, The
Netherlands)
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram (Yahoo! Inc., USA)
Rao Shen (Yahoo!, Canada)
Xuehua Shen (Google, USA)
Wookhyun Shin (Information and Communications
University, Korea)
Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)
Stefan Siersdorfer (University of Sheffield, UK)
Mario J. Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Fabrizio Silvestri (ISTI - CNR, Italy)
Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Mark Smucker (University of Massachusetts Amherst,
USA)
Aya Soffer (IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel)
Dawei Song (Open University, UK)
Ruihua Song (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Amanda H. Spink (Queensland University of
Technology, Australia)
Rohini Srihari (University at Buffalo, USA)
Padmini Srinivasan (University of Iowa, USA)
Benno Stein (Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany)
Tomek Strzalkowski (SUNY Albany, USA)
Hussein Suleman (University of Cape Town, South
Africa)
Tao Tao (Microsoft, USA)
Jaime Teevan (Microsoft Research, USA)
Loren G. Terveen (University of Minnesota, USA)
Ulrich Thiel (Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany)
Paul Thomas (CSIRO / Australian National
University, Australia)
Paul Thompson (Dartmouth College, USA)
Takenobu Tokunaga (Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Japan)
Anastasios Tombros (Queen Mary University of
London, UK)
Stephen Tomlinson (Open Text Corporation, Canada)
Elaine Toms (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Yuen-Hsien Tseng (National Taiwan Normal
University, Taiwan)
Theodora Tsikrika (CWI, The Netherlands)
Jun’ichi Tsujii (University of Manchester / University
of Tokyo, Japan)
Douglas Turnbull (University of California, San
Diego, USA)
Andrew Turpin (RMIT University, Australia)
Howard Turtle (CogiTech, USA)
Evelyne Tzoukermann (Comcast / StreamSage, USA)
Trystan Upstill (Google, USA)
Olga Vechtomova (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Anne-Marie Vercoustre (INRIA, France)
Vishwa Vinay (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)
Phil Vines (RMIT University, Australia)
University of Hong Kong, USA)
Kiduk Yang (Indiana University, USA)
Yiming Yang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Hui Yang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Emine Yilmaz (Northeastern University, USA)
Clement Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Kai Yu (NEC Labs America, USA)
Oren Zamir (Google, USA)
Hugo Zaragoza (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain)
Hongyuan Zha (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Zhu Zhang (University of Arizona, USA)
Dell Zhang (University of London, UK)
Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Shichao Zhang (Guangxi Normal University, China)
Yi Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Jian Zhang (Purdue University, USA)
Aoying Zhou (East China Normal University / Fudan
University, China)
Nivio Ziviani (Federal University of Minas Gerais,
Brazil)
Justin Zobel (NICTA, Australia)
Roelof van Zwol (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain)

 


Additional Paper Reviewers

Brian Almquist (University of Iowa, USA)
Korinna Bade (University of Magdeburg, Germany)
Steven Burrows (RMIT University, Australia)
Guillaume Cabanac (Universite de Toulouse, France)
Tullio Coppotelli (University of Padua, Italy)
Na Dai (Lehigh University, USA)
Laurie Damianos (MITRE Corp., USA)
Subramaniam Ganapathy (Carnegie Mellon
University, USA)
Abhay S. Harpale (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Viet Ha-Thuc (University of Iowa, USA)
John Henderson (MITRE Corp., USA)
Thomas Johnsten (University of South Alabama, USA)
June-Jei Kuo (National Chung Hsing University,
Taiwan)
Abhimanyu Lad (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Zhiwei Li (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Ming Luo (Nextag.com, USA)
Ernesto W. de Luca (University of Magdeburg,
Germany)
Yosi Mass (IBM Haifa Research Labs, Israel)
Riccardo Miotto (University of Padua, Italy)
Lan Nie (Lehigh University, USA)
Wen-Chih Peng (National Chiao Tung University,
Taiwan)
Luca Pretto (University of Padua, Italy)
Xiaoguang Qi (Lehigh University, USA)
Yaron Rachlin (Accenture Technology Labs, USA)
Konstantin Salomatin (Carnegie Mellon University,
USA)
Nico Schlaefer (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Hayri Sever (Cankaya University, Turkey)
Hideki Shima (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Gianmaria Silvello (University of Padua, Italy)
James Thom (RMIT University, Australia)
T. N. Vikram (University of Mysore, India)
Raymond Wan (Kyoto University, Japan)
Fei Wang (Tsinghua University, China)
Jian Wang (Lehigh University, USA)
Xing Wei (Yahoo! Inc., USA)
Mingfang Wu (RMIT University, Australia)
Hui Yang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Erliang Zeng (Tsinghua University, China)
Ye Zhou (Google, USA)

 

Poster and Demonstration Reviewers

Ghaleb Abdulla (Lawrence Livermore Lab, USA)
Maristella Agosti (University of Padova, Italy)
Eija Airio (University of Tampere, Finland)
Khalid Al-Kofahi (Thomson Reuters, USA)
Azzah Al-Maskari (The University of Sheffield, UK)
James Allan (University of Massachusetts Amherst,
USA)
Ismail Sengor Altingovde (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Gianni Amati (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy)
Sophia Ananiadou (University of Manchester, UK)
Javed Aslam (Northeastern University, USA)
Fujii Atsushi (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Anne Aula (Google, USA)
Richard Bache (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Mark Baillie (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Roberto Basili (University of Roma Tor Vergata,
Italy)
Holger Bast (Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik,
Germany)
Micheline Beaulieu (The University of Sheffield, UK)
Steve Beitzel (Telcordia Technologies, USA)
Ron Bekkerman (HP Labs, USA)
Mohammed Belkhatir (Monash University, Australia)
Paul Bennett (Microsoft Research, USA)
Kuang-Hua Chen (National Taiwan University,
Taiwan)
Zheng Chen (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Pu-Jen Cheng (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Abdur Chowdhury (Summize, USA)
Gobinda Chowdhury (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Kenneth Church (Microsoft Research, USA)
Massimiliano Ciaramita (Yahoo! Research Barcelona,
Spain)
Charles Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Carnegie Mellon
University, USA)
Silviu Cucerzan (Microsoft Research, USA)
Krzysztof Czuba (Google, USA)
Ray D’Amore (The MITRE Corporation, USA)
Fernando Das Neves (Snoop Consulting SRL,
Argentina)
Hal Daume III (University of Utah, USA)
Arjen de Vries (Centrum voor Wiskunde en
Informatica, The Netherlands)
Dina Demner-Fushman (United States National
Library of Medicine, USA)
Fernando Diaz (Yahoo!, Canada)
Anne Diekema (Syracuse University, USA)
Ajay Divakaran (Sarnoff Corporation, USA)
Boris Dobrov (Moscow State University, Russia)
Sandor Dominich (University of Pannonia, Hungary)
Debora Donato (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain)
J. Stephen Downie (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Georges Dupret (Yahoo! Research Latin America,
Chile)
Miles Efron (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Koji Eguchi (Kobe University, Japan)
Charles Elkan (University of California, San Diego,
USA)
Xin Fan (The University of Sheffield, UK)
Hui Fang (Ohio State University, USA)
Nicola Ferro (University of Padua, Italy)
Marcus Fontoura (Yahoo!, USA)
Dmitriy Fradkin (Siemens, USA)
Xin Fu (Google, USA)
Johannes Fuernkranz (Technische Universtat
Darmstadt, Germany)
Norbert Fuhr (University of Duisburg-Essen,
Germany)
Sumio Fujita (Yahoo!, Japan)
Patrick Gallinari (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie,
France)
Susan Gauch (University of Arkansas, USA)
Eric Gaussier (Universite Joseph Fourier, France)
Fatih Gelgi (Accord Institute for Education Research,
USA)
Rayid Ghani (Accenture Technology Labs, USA)
C. Lee Giles (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
King-Ip Lin (University of Memphis, USA)
Shin-Jeng Lin (Le Moyne College, USA)
Xia Lin (Drexel University, USA)
Krister Linden (University of Helsinki, Finland)
David Losada (University of Santiago de Compostela,
Spain)
Natalia Loukachevitch (Moscow State University,
Russia)
Jie Lu (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA)
Lie Lu (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Robert Luk (Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
China)
Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow, UK)
Andrew MacFarlane (City University London, UK)
Joao Magalhaes (Imperial College London, UK)
Jonathan Mamou (IBM Haifa Research Labs, Israel)
Thomas Mandl (Universitat Hildesheim, Germany)
Maarten Marx (University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands)
James Mayfield (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Robert McArthur (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)
J. Scott McCarley (IBM TJ Watson Research Center,
USA)
Paul McNamee (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Helen Meng (Chinese University of Hong Kong,
China)
Donald Metzler (Yahoo!, USA)
Sebastian Michel (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de
Lausanne, Switzerland)
Gilad Mishne (Yahoo!, USA)
Mandar Mitra (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Vibhu Mittal (Google, USA)
Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine, Italy)
Alistair Moffat (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Masnizah Mohd (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Pedro Moreno (Google, USA)
Josiane Mothe (Institut de Recherche en Informatique
de Toulouse, France)
Edleno Moura (Universidade Federal do Amazonas,
Brazil)
Henning Muller (University Hospitals of Geneva,
Switzerland)
Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain)
Marc Najork (Microsoft Research, USA)
Zaiqing Nie (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Tadashi Nomoto (National Institute of Japanese
Literature, Japan)
Ragnar Nordlie (Oslo University College, Norway)
Andreas Nuernberger (University of Magdeburg,
Germany)
Paul Ogilvie (mSpoke, USA)
J. Scott Olsson (University of Maryland, USA)
Jahna Otterbacher (University of Michigan, USA)
Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow, UK)
Theodora Tsikrika (CWI, The Netherlands)
Douglas Turnbull (University of California, San
Diego, USA)
Andrew Turpin (RMIT University, Australia)
Olga Vechtomova (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Vishwa Vinay (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)
Alessandro Vinciarelli (IDIAP Research Institute,
Switzerland)
Phil Vines (RMIT University, Australia)
Nina Wacholder (Rutgers University, USA)
Jun Wang (University College London, UK)
Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik,
Germany)
Thijs Westerveld (Teezir Search Solutions, The
Netherlands)
Maria Wimmer (University of Koblenz, Germany)
Xiayun Wu (Google, USA)
Wensi Xi (Google, USA)
Zhichen Xu (Yahoo!, USA)
Murat Yakici (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Rong Yan (IBM TJ Watson Research, USA)
Stefano Berretti (University of Firenze, Italy)
Ralf Bierig (Rutgers University, USA)
Catherine Blake (University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, USA)
Mohand Boughanem (Universite Paul Sabatier,
France)
Martin Braschler (Zurich University of Applied
Sciences, Switzerland)
Andrei Broder (Yahoo!, USA)
Carla Brodley (Tufts University, USA)
Chris Buckley (Sabir Research, USA)
Stefan Buettcher (Google, USA)
Deng Cai (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Fazli Can (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Yunbo Cao (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Ben Carterette (University of Massachusetts Amherst,
USA)
Joe Carthy (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Moreno Carullo (Universit`a degli Studi dell’Insubria,
Italy)
Jeong-Won Cha (Changwon National University,
South Korea)
Melanie Gnasa (Fraunhofer-Institut IAIS, Germany)
Ayse Goker (City University London, UK)
Warren Greiff (MITRE, USA)
David Grossman (IIT, USA)
Daniel Gruhl (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Preben Hansen (Swedish Institute of Computer
Science, Sweden)
Daqing He (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Andreas Henrich (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Jimmy Huang (York University, Canada)
Zi Helen Huang (Open University, UK)
Theo Huibers (University of Twente, The
Netherlands)
David Hull (Justsystem Evans Research, USA)
Makoto Iwayama (Hitachi, Japan)
Bernard Jansen (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Eric Jensen (Summize, USA)
Jing Jiang (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Valentin Jijkoun (University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands)
Hideo Joho (University of Glasgow, UK)
Xu Jun (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands)
Bo-Young Kang (Seoul National University, South
Korea)
Jussi Karlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer
Science, Sweden)
Gabriella Kazai (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)
Mostafa Keikha (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Kimmo Kettunen (University of Tampere, Finland)
Kazuaki Kishida (Keio University, Japan)
Jeongwoo Ko (Oracle, USA)
Aleksander Kolcz (Microsoft Research, USA)
Don Kraft (Louisiana State University, USA)
Ravi Kumar (Yahoo!, USA)
Oren Kurland (Technion, Israel)
Monica Landoni (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Birger Larsen (Royal School of Library and
Information Science, Denmark)
Victor Lavrenko (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Fotis Lazarinis (Technological Educational Institute,
Greece)
Gary G. Lee (POSTECH, South Korea)
Miro Lehtonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Jochen Leidner (Thomson Reuters Corporation, USA)
Qing Li (Southwestern University of Finance and
Economics, China)
Tao Li (Florida International University, USA)
Xin Li (Yahoo!, USA)
Liz Liddy (Syracuse University, USA)
Chuan-Jie Lin (National Taiwan Ocean University,
Taiwan)
Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland, USA)
Gabriella Pasi (Universit`a degli Studi di Milano
Bicocca, Italy)
Virgil Pavlu (Northeastern University, USA)
Fuchun Peng (Yahoo!, USA)
Vivien Petras (GESIS Social Science Information
Centre, Germany)
Jeremy Pickens (FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc., USA)
Benjamin Piwowarski (Yahoo! Research Latin
America, Chile)
Tao Qin (Tsinghua University, China)
Dragomir Radev (University of Michigan, USA)
Filip Radlinski (Cornell University, USA)
Hema Raghavan (University of Massachusetts
Amherst, USA)
Vijay Raghavan (University of Louisiana, USA)
Edie Rasmussen (University of British Columbia,
Canada)
Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology,
Austria)
Knut Magne Risvik (Google, Norway)
Thomas Roelleke (Queen Mary University, UK)
Monica Rogati (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Dmitri Roussinov (Arizona State University, USA)
Miguel Ruiz (University of North Texas, USA)
Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Tetsuya Sakai (NewsWatch, Japan)
Jose San Pedro (The University of Sheffield, UK)
Jacques Savoy (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)
Ralf Schenkel (Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik,
Germany)
Falk Scholer (RMIT University, Australia)
Pavel Serdyukov (University of Twente, The
Netherlands)
Na Seung-Hoon (POSTECH, South Korea)
Rad Shen (Yahoo!, Canada)
Xuehua Shen (Google, USA)
Milad Shokouhi (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)
Stefan Siersdorfer (The University of Sheffield, UK)
Mario J. Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Fabrizio Silvestri (Information Science and Technology
Institute, Italy)
Mark Smucker (University of Massachusetts Amherst,
USA)
Lorenzo Sommaruga (University of Applied Sciences
Switzerland, Switzerland)
Hussein Suleman (University of Cape Town, South
Africa)
Tao Tao (Microsoft Research, USA)
Jaime Teevan (Microsoft Research, USA)
Loren Terveen (University of Minnesota, USA)
Ulrich Thiel (Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany)
Paul Thomas (CSIRO, Australia)
Paul Thompson (Dartmouth College, USA)
Anastasios Tombros (Queen Mary University, UK)
Elaine Toms (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Emine Yilmaz (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)
Hugo Zaragoza (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain)
Hongyuan Zha (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Dell Zhang (University of London, UK)
Jian Zhang (Purdue University, USA)
Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Yi Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
Aoying Zhou (East China Normal University, China)
Justin Zobel (NICTA, Australia)

 

Additional Poster and Demonstration Reviewers

Rui Cai (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Paolo Casoto (University of Udine, Italy)
Carlos Castillo (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain)
Gianluca Demartini (Leibniz Universitat Hannover,Germany)
Julia Luxenburger (Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik, Germany)

 

Doctoral Consortium Committee

James Allan (University of Massachusetts Amherst,
USA)
Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Charlie Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Susan Dumais (Microsoft Research, USA), Co-Chair
David Hawking (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)
Thorsten Joachims (Cornell University, USA)
Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands)
Liz Liddy (Syracuse University, USA)
Yoelle Maarek (Google Haifa Engineering Center,
Israel)
Stephen Robertson (City University London, UK)
Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Andrew Trotman (University of Otago, New Zealand),
Co-Chair

 

Mentors Committee

Greg Grefenstette (CEA LIST-LIC2M, France)
David Hawking (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)
Bill Hersh (Oregon Health and Science University,
USA)
Jimmy Huang (York University, Canada)
Kalervo J¨arvelin (University of Tampere, Finland)
Rong Jin (Michigan State University, USA)
Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Rosie Jones (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London,
UK)
Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland, College Park,
USA)
Donald Metzler (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada), Chair
Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK)
Luo Si (Purdue University, USA)
Ryen White (Microsoft Research, USA)
Hugo Zaragoza (Microsoft Research, USA)

 

Tutorials Committee

Holger Bast (Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik,
Germany)
Luanne Freund (University of British Columbia,
Canada)
Christopher Khoo (Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore)
Vibhu Mittal (Google, Inc., USA)
Edie Rasmussen (University of British Columbia,
Canada), Chair
Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde, UK)

 

Workshop Committee

Peter Anick (Yahoo!, USA), Co-Chair
Einat Amitay (IBM Research, Israel)
Peter Bruza (Queensland University of Technology,
Australia)
Jussi Karlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer
Science, Sweden)
Christopher Khoo (Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore)
Victor Lavrenko (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Gary Geunbae Lee (Pohang University of Science and
Technology, Korea)
Chin-Yew Lin (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore, Sin-
gapore), Co-Chair