General Conference Chairs
Gareth Jones, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin City University, IrelandPáraic Sheridan, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin City University, Ireland
Program Committee Chairs
Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, USAMaarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tetsuya Sakai, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Short Papers and Demonstration Chairs
Cathal Gurrin, CLARITY, Dublin City University, IrelandUdo Kruschwitz, University of Essex, U.K.
Tutorials Chairs
Noriko Kando, NII, JapanSéamus Lawless, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Workshops Chairs
Arjen de Vries, CWI, The NetherlandsVincent Wade, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Industry Track Chairs
Jimi Shanahan, Consultant, USASusan Feldman, Synthexis, LLC, USA
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
Jaime Arguello, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USAMounia Lalmas, Yahoo!, Spain
Grace Hui Yang, Georgetown University, USA
Best Papers Chair
Alan Smeaton, CLARITY, Dublin City University, IrelandPublications Chairs
Liadh Kelly, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin City University, IrelandLorraine Goeuriot, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin City University, Ireland
Local Arrangements Chair
Séamus Lawless, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Trinity College Dublin, IrelandPublicity Chair
Laura Grehan, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin City University, IrelandSponsorship Chair
Páraic Sheridan, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin City University, IrelandTreasurer
Fiona Maguire, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Dublin City University, IrelandWebmaster
Conference PartnersSIGIR 2013 logo design
Daragh ByrneSIGIR 2013 Area Chairs
Diane Kelly (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) – Chair
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) – Chair
Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft Research Asia, China) – Chair
Paul Bennett (Microsoft Research, USA)
Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Microsoft Research, USA)
Shlomo Geva (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Wessel Kraaij (Radboud University Nijmegen & TNO, The Netherlands)
Oren Kurland (Technion, Israel)
Edleno S. de Moura (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil)
Arjen de Vries (Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica & Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Ming Zhou (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Nick Craswell (Microsoft, USA)
Fernando Diaz (Microsoft Research, USA)
Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google, USA)
Fabrizio Silvestri (Information Science and Technology Institute CNR, Italy)
Ryen White (Microsoft Research, USA)
Charles L. A. Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Aristides Gionis (Aalto University, Finland)
Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Mounia Llamas (Yahoo! Labs, Spain)
Yoelle Maarek (Yahoo! Labs, Israel)
Marc Najork (Microsoft Research, USA)
Elad Yom-Tov (Microsoft Research, Israel)
Vanja Josifovski (Google, USA)
Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) – Chair
Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft Research Asia, China) – Chair
Document Representation and Content Analysis
James Allan (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)Paul Bennett (Microsoft Research, USA)
Kevyn Collins-Thompson (Microsoft Research, USA)
Shlomo Geva (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Wessel Kraaij (Radboud University Nijmegen & TNO, The Netherlands)
Oren Kurland (Technion, Israel)
Edleno S. de Moura (Federal University of Amazonas, Brazil)
Arjen de Vries (Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica & Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Ming Zhou (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Queries and Query Analysis
Carlos Castillo (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)Nick Craswell (Microsoft, USA)
Fernando Diaz (Microsoft Research, USA)
Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Google, USA)
Fabrizio Silvestri (Information Science and Technology Institute CNR, Italy)
Ryen White (Microsoft Research, USA)
Web IR and Social Media Search
Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, USA)Charles L. A. Clarke (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Aristides Gionis (Aalto University, Finland)
Matthew Lease (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Mounia Llamas (Yahoo! Labs, Spain)
Yoelle Maarek (Yahoo! Labs, Israel)
Marc Najork (Microsoft Research, USA)
Elad Yom-Tov (Microsoft Research, Israel)
Search Engine Architectures and Scalability
B. Barla Cambazoglu (Yahoo! Labs, Spain)Vanja Josifovski (Google, USA)
Retrieval Models and Ranking
Leif Azzopardi (University of Glasgow, UK)Peter Bruza (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
David Carmel (Yahoo! Labs, Israel)
Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Eric Gaussier (Université Joseph Fourier, France)
Donald Metzler (Google, USA)
Tao Qin (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Filtering and Recommendation
Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)Brian Davison (Lehigh University, USA)
Yi Zhang (University of California, USA)
Evaluation
Ben Carterette (University of Delaware, USA)Mark Sanderson (RMIT University, Australia)
Ellen Voorhees (NIST, USA)
William Webber (University of Maryland, USA)
Users and Interactive IR
Susan Dumais (Microsoft Research, USA)Kalervo Järvelin (University of Tampere, Finland)
Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Jaime Teevan (Microsoft Research, USA)
IR and Structured Data
Krisztian Balog (University of Stavanger, Norway)Andrew Trotman (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Multimedia IR
Franciska de Jong (University of Twente, The Netherlands)Stephane Marchand-Maillet (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Other Applications
Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore)Vanessa Murdock (Microsoft, USA)
Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland, USA)
