Scientific Board

The Scientific Board governs the society and scientifically represents the society. In particular, the Scientific Board shall

  • be responsible for the scientific policy of the society

  • grant membership applications

  • peer review scientific projects submitted by members

  • appoint the Executive Board

  • approve the appointment of scientific officers

 

Norbert Fuhr

Norbert Fuhr

Chairman of the IRF Scientific Board, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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John Tait

John Tait

Vice-Chairman of the IRF Scientific Board, Visiting Researcher at the Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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Maristella Agosti

Maristella Agosti

Professor,Department of Information Engineering
University of Padova, Italy
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Gerhard Budin

Gerhard Budin

Professor, Deputy Director of the Center of Translation Studies at the University of Vienna, and Director of the Department of Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria

Yves Chiaramella

Yves Chiaramella

Professor Emeritus,Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics,
Université Joseph Fourier, France
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Kilnam Chon

Kilnam Chon

Professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea and Professor at Keio University, Japan
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W. Bruce Croft

W. Bruce Croft

Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science and Director, Center for Intelligent IR, University of Massachusetts, USA
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Hamish Cunningham

Hamish Cunningham

Research Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Allan Hanbury

Senior Scientist, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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David Hawking

David Hawking

Chief Scientist, Funnelback Internet & Enterprise Search, and Adjunct Professor, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University, Australia
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Noriko Kando

Noriko Kando

Professor, Information-Society Research Division, National Institute of Informatics (NII), and Professor, Department of Informatics, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan 
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Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Arcot Desai Narasimhalu

Professor of Information Systems Practice and Director of the Insitute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship,Singapore Management University, Singapore
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Benjamin T'sou

Benjamin T'sou

Professor Emeritus, Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistic City University of Hong Kong, and Chair Professor of Language Sciences, Faculty of Languages, Director, Research Centre on Linguistics and Language Information Sciences, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
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C.J. van Rijsbergen

C.J. "Keith" van Rijsbergen

Professor Emeritus,Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
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