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Last updated 22 May, 2002

Program Committee

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Program Co-Chair - Africa/Europe
Micheline Beaulieu
University of Sheffield
Western Bank
Sheffield, S10 2TN
United Kingdom
Phone +44 (0)114 2222640, Fax +44 (0)114 2780300
m.beaulieu@sheffield.ac.uk

Program Co-Chair - Americas
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
University of Chile
Blanco Encalada 2120
Santiago 6511224
Chile
Phone +56-2-689-2736, Fax +56-2-689-5531
rbaeza@dcc.uchile.cl

Program Co-Chair - Asia/Oceania
Sung Hyon Myaeng
Chungnam National University
220 Kung-dong
Yusong-gu
Taejon
Korea
Phone +82-42-821-5446, Fax +82-42-822-9959
shmyaeng@cs.chungnam.ac.kr

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OTHER CHAIRS

Posters Chair
James Allan
University of Massachusetts, U.S.A.
allan@cs.umass.edu

Tutorials Chair
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis
University of Washington, U.S.A.
efthimis@u.washington.edu

Workshops Co-chairs
Jaana Kekäläinen
University of Tampere, Finland
jaana.kekalainen@uta.fi

Pia Borlund
Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
pb@db.dk

Demonstrations Co-Chairs
Eija Airio
University of Tampere, Finland
eija.airio@uta.fi

Mark Sanderson
University of Sheffield, UK
m.sanderson@sheffield.ac.uk

Mentoring Chair
Peter Anick
AltaVista, USA
peter.anick@av.com

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AREA COORDINATORS (Metareviewers)

For each general area, two area coordinators will guide the reviewing process.

Formal Models, Language Models, Search Strategies, Fusion/Combination
Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, keith@dcs.gla.ac.uk
Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, croft@cs.umass.edu

Machine Learning for IR, Text Data Mining, Clustering, Text Categorization
William Cohen, WhizBang Labs, wcohen@whizbang.com
David Lewis, Independent Consultant, dave@DavidDLewis.com
David Hull, Clairvoyance Corporation, hull@clairvoyancecorp.com

Cross-lingual Retrieval, Multilingual Retrieval, Machine Translation for IR
Doug Oard, University of Maryland, oard@glue.umd.edu
Carol Peters, CNR Pisa Italy, carol@iei.pi.cnr.it

Topic Detection and Tracking, Content-Based Filtering, Collaborative Filtering, Agents
Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Cambridge UK, ser@microsoft.com
Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, callan+@cs.cmu.edu

Web IR, Citation and Link Analysis, XML and Metadata, Digital Libraries
David Hawking, Australian National University, David.Hawking@cmis.csiro.au
Amit Singhal, Google, singhal@google.com

Video and Image Access, Audio and Speech Retrieval, Music Retrieval
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, asmeaton@CompApp.DCU.ie
Mark Maybury, MITRE, maybury@mitre.org

Text Representation and Indexing, Information Extraction, Lexical Acquisition, Natural Language Processing for IR
Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNY University at Albany, tomek@cs.albany.edu
Rob Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, R.Gaizauskas@dcs.shef.ac.uk

Performance, Compression, Scalability, Architectures, Distributed Search, Mobile Applications
Justin Zobel, RMIT University, jz@cs.rmit.edu.au
Charlie Clarke, University of Waterloo, claclark@plg.uwaterloo.ca

Interfaces, Visualization, Interactive IR, User Models, User Studies
Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark, pi@db.dk
Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, march@ils.unc.edu

Summarization, Question Answering
John Tait, University of Sunderland, John.Tait@sunderland.ac.uk
Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Stockholm, Jussi.Karlgren@sics.se

Evaluation, Building Test Collections, Experimental Design and Metrics
Ellen Voorhees, NIST, ellen.voorhees@nist.gov
Karen Sparck Jones, Cambridge University, ksj@cl.cam.ac.uk

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MEMBERS OF REGIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES (Reviewers)

Helena Ahonen-Myka, University of Helsinki
James Allan, University of Massachusetts
Peter Anick, AltaVista
Javed Aslam, Dartmouth College
Peter Bailey, The Australian National University
Roberto Basili, University of Roma
Branimir Boguraev, IBM Research Watson
Gloria Bordogna, ITIM-CNR
Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library and Information Science
Mohand Boughanem, IRIT Toulouse
Martin Braschler, Eurospider Information Technology AG
Andrei Broder, AltaVista
Eric Brown, IBM Research Watson
Jack Bryar, NewsEdge
Chris Buckley, Sabir Research, Inc
Jamie Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University
Soumen Chakrabarti, IIT Bombay
Kuang-hua Chen, National Taiwan University
Lee-Feng Chien, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Gordon Cormack, University of Waterloo
Nick Craswell, CSIRO
Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde
Tamas Doszkocs, National Library of Medicine
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research
John Eakins, University of Northumbria
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, University of Washington
David Eichmann, University of Iowa
Charles Elkan, CSE, UCSD
Jim French, University of Virginia
Ayse Goker, Robert Gordon University
Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
Sanda Harabagiu, University of Texas
Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley
Monika Henzinger, Google Inc
Mark Hepple, University of Sheffield
Djoerd Hiemstra, University of Twente
Christian Jacquemin, LIMSI-CNRS
Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University
Gareth Jones, University of Exeter
Michael Jordan, University of California, Berkeley
Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics
Martin Kaszkiel, Google Inc.
Christopher Khoo, Nanyang Technological University
Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary University of London
Joon Ho Lee, Soongsil University
Liz Liddy, Syracuse University
Xia Lin, Drexel University
Robert Luk, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yoelle Maarek, IBM Research Lab in Haifa
David Madigan, Rutgers University
Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva
James Mayfield, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Scott McCarley, IBM TJ Watson Research Center
Sharon McDonald, University of Sunderland
Bernard Merialdo, Institut EURECOM
Mandar Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata (Calcutta)
Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia
Thomas Montgomery, Ford Motor Company
Josiane Mothe, IRIT - Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse
Craig Nevill-Manning, Google, Inc
Hwee Tou Ng, DSO National Laboratories
Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal
Kamal Nigam, WhizBang Labs
Chris Paice, Lancaster University
Gabriella Pasi, ITIM - CNR
Ari Pirkola, University of Tampere
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
John Riedl, University of Minnesota
Ellen Riloff, University of Utah
Knut Magne Risvik, Fast Search & Transfer ASA
Airi Salminen, University of Jyväskylä
Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield
Jacques Savoy, University of Neuchatel
John Smith, IBM Research Watson
Barry Smyth, University College Dublin
Ian Soboroff, NIST
Eero Sormunen, University of Tampere
Padmini Srinivasan, University of Iowa
Ulrich Thiel, Fraunhofer IPSI
Takenobu Tokunaga, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Hans Uzkoreit, DFKI Saarbruecken and Saarland University
Arjen de Vries, CWI
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO
Hugh Williams, RMIT University
Jinxi Xu, BBN Technologies/Verizon
Yiming Yang, Carnegie Mellon University
Byoung-Tak Zhang, Seoul National University
Andrew Zisserman, University of Oxford
Nivio Ziviani, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

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ADDITIONAL REVIEWERS

Einat Amitay, IBM Research Lab, Haifa, Israel
Vo Ngoc Anh, University of Melbourne
Claudine Badue, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Pavel Calado, Federal University Minas Gerais, Brazil
David Carmel, IBM Research Lab, Haifa, Israel
Jonathan Edwards, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Rodrigo Fonseca, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Tim Gollins, Government Communication Headquarters, Cheltenham
Carlos Goncalves, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
David Harper, Robert Gordon University
Fang Huang, University of Sheffield
Hideo Hojo, University of Sheffield
Giles Hubert, IRIT, Toulouse
Gabriella Kazai, Queen Mary University of London
Owen de Kretser, University of Melbourne
Victor Lavrenko, University of Massachusetts
Anton Leuski, University of Massachusetts
Paul McNamee, Johns Hopkins University
Wagner Meira Jr., Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Alessandro Moschitti, University of Rome 2
Edleno Moura, Akwan Information Technologies, Brazil
Apostol Natsev, IBM
Rani Nelken, IBM Research Lab, Haifa, Israel
Daniella Petrelli, University of Sheffield
Jeremy Pickens, University of Massachusetts
Bruno Possas, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Falk Scholer, RMIT
Vaughan Shanks, RMIT
Aya Soffer, IBM Research Lab, Haifa, Israel
Andy Song, RMIT
Saied Tahaghoghi, RMIT
Belle Tseng, IBM
Theodora Tsikrika, Queen Mary University of London
Ricardo Ueda, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sandra Uitdenbogerd, RMIT
Phil Vines, RMIT
Peter Willett, University of Sheffield
Bianca Zadrozny, UCSD
Fabio Zanzotto, University of Rome 2

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POSTER REVIEWERS

Jay Aslam, Dartmouth College, USA
Nick Belkin, Rutgers University, USA
Peter Bruza, Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Australia
Nick Craswell, CSIRO, Australia
Anne Diekema, Syracuse University, USA
Martin Franz, IBM, USA
Susan Gauch, University of Kansas, USA
Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Donna Harman, NIST, USA
Jim Jansen, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Hongyan Jing, Lucent Technologies, USA
Leah Larkey, University of Massachusetts, USA
Victor Lavrenko, University of Massachusetts, USA
Anton Leuski, University of Massachusetts, USA
Gina-Anne Levow, University of Chicago, USA
Elizabeth D. Liddy, Syracuse University, USA
Robert Luk, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
R Manmatha, University of Massachusetts, USA
Filippo Menczer, University of Iowa, USA
Mark Montague, Dartmouth College, USA
Gonzalo Navarro, Universidad de Chile, Chile
Gautam Pant, University of Iowa, USA
Jeremy Pickens, University of Massachusetts, USA
Jay Ponte, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan, USA
Dawei Song, Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Australia
Amanda Spink, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia
Jinxi Xu, BBN Technologies, USA

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TUTORIALS COMMITTEE

Efthimis N. Efthimiadis (chair), University of Washington, USA
Giorgio Brajnik, University of Udine, Italy
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA
Susan Gauch, University of Kansas, USA
Donna Harman, NIST, USA
Elizabeth Liddy, Syracuse University, USA
Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Edie Rasmussen, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University, Ireland
Emmanuel Yannakoudakis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

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AWARDS COMMITTEE

Donna Harman (chair), National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gordon Cormack, University of Waterloo
David Hull, Clairvoyance Corp.
Wessel Kraaij, TNO TPD
Kui Lam Kwok, Queens College, City University of New York
Mehran Sahami, Stanford University
Hinrich Schuetze, Novation Biosciences
Howard Turtle, Cogitech

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MENTORS

James Allan, University of Massachusetts, USA
Andrei Broder, AltaVista, USA
Eric Brown, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA
David Eichmann, University of Iowa, USA
James French, University of Virginia, USA
Norbert Fuhr, Dortmund University, Germany
Susan Gauch, University of Kansas, USA
Warren Greiff, MITRE Corporation, USA
Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley
William Hersh, Oregon Health & Science University, USA
Mun-Kew Leong, Laboratories for Information Technology, Singapore
Vibhu Mittal, Google/Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Paul Over, NIST, USA
Jay Ponte, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Amanda Spink, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Ross Wilkinson, CSIRO, Australia
Jinxi Xu, BBN Technologies, USA

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