Program committee
Nicola Ferro, University of Padua (chair)
Alan Smeaton, Dublin City University (chair)
Eneko Agirre, University of the Basque Country, Spain
Giambattista Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Julie Berndsen, University COllege Dublin, Ireland
Pia Borlund, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
Pavel Braslavski, Yandex and Ural State Tech. University, Ural State University, Russia
Chris Buckley, Sabir Research, USA
Pável Calado, Superior Technical Institute, Portugal
Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Charlie Clark, University of Waterloo, Canada
Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Franca Debole, Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI), Italian National Research Council (CNR) , Italy
J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Susan Dumais, Microsoft Research, USA
Floriana Esposito, University of Bari, Italy
Marcello Federico, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg, Germany
Fredric Gey, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Marcos André Gonçalves, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brasil
Julio Gonzalo, National Distance Learning University, Spain
Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France
Allan Hanbury, Information Retrieval Facility (IRF), Austria
Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
Perla Innocenti, University of Glasgow, UK
Kalervo Järvelin, University of Tampere, Finland
Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland
Theodore Kalamboukis, Athen University of Economics and Business, Greece
Abdelmajid Benhamadou, MIRACL ISIM Université de Sfax, Tunisie
Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan
Sarantos Kapidakis, Ionian University, Greece
Jussi Karlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Sweden
Kazuaki Kishida, Keio University, Japan
Mikko Kurimo, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Mounia Lalmas, University of Glasgow, UK
Ray Larson, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Saturnino Luz, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Bernardo Magnini, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Prasenjit Majumder, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, India
Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Paul McNamee, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Mandar Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Stefano Mizzaro, University of Udine, Italy
Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne , Australia
Viviane Moreira Orengo, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brasil
Henning Müller, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Switzerland
Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada
Doug Oard, University of Maryland, USA
Nicola Orio, University of Padua, Italy
Christos Papatheodorou, Ionian University, Greece
Gabriella Pasi, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
Anselmo Peñas, National Distance Learning University, Spain
Vivien Petras, Humboldt University, Germany
Jean-Michel Renders, Xerox Research Centre (XRCE), France
Seamus Ross, University of Toronto, Canada
Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK
Tetsuya Sakai, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Diana Santos, SINTEF Information and Communication Technology, Norway
Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy
Frederique Segond, Xerox Research Centre (XRCE), France
Giovanni Semeraro, University of Bari, Italy
Paraic Sheridan, Centre for Next Generation Localisation, Ireland
Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
Alexander Sychov, Voronezh State University, Russia
John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility (IRF), Austria
Letizia Tanca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Elaine Toms, Dalhousie University, Canada
Andrew Trotman, University of Otago, New Zealand
Natalia Vassilieva, HP Labs Russia, Russia
Felisa Verdejo, National Distance Learning University, Spain
Ellen Voorhees, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA
Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics (MPII), Germany
Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Justin Zobel, University of Melbourne , Australia
