General Chair: Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK

Programme Chair: Stefan Rueger, The Open University, UK
 

Programme Committee 

• Yannis Avrithis, CERTH, Greece
• Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, UK
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, ES
• Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University, US
• Paul Clough, University of Sheffield, UK
• W. Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, US
• Norbert Fuhr, University Duisburg-Essen, DE
• Wilfried Gansterer, University of Vienna, AT
• Charles J. Gillan, Queen's University Belfast, UK
• Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, FR
• Preben Hansen, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SE
• David Hawking, Funnelback Internet & Enterprise Search, AU
• Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, UK
• Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics (NII), JP
• Philipp Koehn, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Wessel Kraaij, TNO, NL
• Udo Kruschwitz, University of Essex, UK
• Dominique Maret, Matrixware Information Services, AT
• Marie-Francine Moens, Catholic University of Leuven, BE
• Henning Müller, University of Geneva, CH
• Walid Najjar, University of California Riverside, US
• Arcot Desai Narasimhalu, Singapore Management University, SG
• Fredrik Olsson, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SE
• Miles Osborne, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, AT
• Magnus Sahlgren, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, SE
• Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, UK
• Frank J. Seinstra, Vrije Universiteit, NL
• John Tait, IRF, AT
• Benjamin T'sou, City University of Hong Kong, HK
• Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim, DE

Local Organising Committee

• Marie-Pierre Garnier
• Allan Hanbury
• Mihai Lupu
• Giovanna Roda
• Helmut Berger