Program committee (full papers)

Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, UK (chair)
ChengXiang Zhai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (chair)
Justin Zobel, University of Melbourne, Australia (chair)

Eytan Adar, Universeity of Washington, USA
Fabio Aiolli, University of Padova, Italy
Ram Akella, University Of California Santa Cruz, USA
Khalid Al-Kofahi, Thomson Reuters, USA
Gianni Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Massih-Reza Amini, National Research Council, Canada
Einat Amitay, IBM Research, Israel
Peter Anick, Yahoo!, USA
Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Jing Bai, Yahoo, United States
Peter Bailey, Microsoft, USA
Mark Baillie, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne, Australia
Krisztian Balog, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Alvaro Barreiro, University of A Coruña, Spain
Roberto Basili, University of Roma, Tor Vergata, Italy
Holger Bast, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany
Michel Beigbeder, Ecole superieure des Mines de St-Etienne, France
Steve Beitzel, Telcordia Technologies, USA
Paul Bennett, Microsoft Research, USA
Misha Bilenko, Microsoft Research, USA
Gloria Bordogna, CNR, Italy
Mohand Boughanem, IRIT, University Paul Sabatier, France
Giorgio Brajnik, University of Udine, Italy
Martin Braschler, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Andrei Broder, Yahoo!, USA
Eric Brown, IBM Research, USA
Ron Brown, University of South Carolina, USA
Chris Buckley, Sabir Research, USA
Stefan Buettcher, Google, USA
Mark Carman, University of Lugano, Switzerland
David Carmel, IBM Research, Israel
Ben Carterette, University of Delaware, USA
Carlos Castillo, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Yllias Chali, University of Lethbridge, Canada
Yee Seng Chan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Olivier Chapelle, Yahoo! Research, USA
Kuang-hua Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Wei Chu, Yahoo! Labs, USA
Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Microsoft Research, USA
Gordon Cormack, University of Waterloo, Canada
Nick Craswell, Microsoft, United Kingdom
Silviu Cucerzan, Microsoft Research, USA
Fernando Das Neves, Snoop Consulting, Argentina
Brian Davison, Lehigh University, USA
Franciska de JONG, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Arjen P. de Vries, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands
Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, University of Padua, Italy, Italy
Fernando Diaz, Yahoo! Labs Montreal, Canada
Ajay Divakaran, Sarnoff Corporation, USA
Antoine Doucet, University of Caen, France
J. Stephen Downie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis, University of Washington, USA
Koji Eguchi, Kobe University, Japan
Maximilian Eibl, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany
Charles Elkan, University of California San Diego, USA
Jonathan Elsas, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
David Elsweiler, Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet Erlangen, Germany
Andrea Esuli, National Council of Research Italy, Italy
Jianping Fan, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA
Hui Fang, University of Delaware, USA
Shaolei Feng, Siemens Corporate Research Labs, USA
Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy
Radu Florian, IBM Research, USA
David Forsyth, UIUC, USA
Luis Francisco-Revilla, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Jim French, University of Virginia, USA
Luanne Freund, University of British Columbia, Canada
Ingo Frommholz, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Maria Fuentes, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Johannes Fürnkranz, TU Darmstadt, Germany
Evgeniy Gabrilovich, Yahoo! Research, USA
Rob Gaizauskas, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Patrick Gallinari, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, France
Bin Gao, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Eric Gaussier, Université Joseph Fourier, France
Shlomo Geva, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Fredric Gey, SRC Emeritus Berkeley University, USA
Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Gene Golovchinsky, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA
Marcos Gonçalves, UFMG, Brazil
Yihong Gong, NEC Laboratories America, USA
Julio Gonzalo, UNED, Spain
Cyril Goutte, NRC Institute for Information Technology, Canada
Brigitte Grau, LIMSI, France
Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France
John Guiver, Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cathal Gurrin, Dublin City University, Ireland
Ben Hachey, Macquarie University, Australia
Eui-Hong (Sam) Han, nXn Tech., USA
Donna Harman, NIST, USA
Claudia Hauff, University of Twente, The Netherlands
David Hawking, Funnelback, Australia
Monika Henzinger, EPFL and Google, Switzerland
Bill Hersh, Oregon Health and Science University, USA
Paul Heymann, Stanford University, USA
David Hicks, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Denmark
Katja Hofmann, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Steven Hoi, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Nicholas Howe, Smith College, USA
Xian-Sheng Hua, Microsoft Research, China
Yifen Huang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Peter Ingwersen, Royal School of Library and Information Science Copenhagen, Denmark
Panos Ipeirotis, New York University, USA
Hideki Isozaki, NTT Corporation, Japan
Kalervo Järvelin, University of Tampere, Finland
Adam Jatowt, Kyoto University, Japan
CV Jawahar, IIIT Hyderabad, India
Jiwoon Jeon, Google, USA
Jing Jiang, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Valentin Jijkoun, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Thorsten Joachims, Cornell University, USA
Hideo Joho, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Mohan Kankanhalli, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden
Tsuneaki Kato, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom
Sathiya Keerthi, Yahoo! Research, USA
Diane Kelly, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Michael Khoo, Drexel University, USA
Kazuaki Kishida, Keio University, Japan
Dietrich Klakow, Saarland University, Germany
Wessel Kraaij, TNO , The Netherlands
Giridhar Kumaran, Microsoft Corporation, USA
Kazuko Kuriyama, Shirayuri College, Japan, Japan
Oren Kurland, Technion, Israel
Jens Kürsten, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany
Kui-Lam Kwok, Queens College City University of New York, USA
Alberto Laender, UFMG, Brazil
Wai Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Monica Landoni, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Guy Lapalme, Université de Montréal, Canada
Martha Larson, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Ray Larson, University of California Berkeley, USA
Victor Lavrenko, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Quoc V. Le, Stanford University, USA
Guy Lebanon, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, South Korea
Jochen Leidner, Thomson Reuters, USA
Ronny Lempel, Yahoo!, Israel
Michael Lew, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Ping Li, Cornell University, USA
Tao Li, Florida International University, USA
Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Wenhui Liao, Thomson Reuters, USA
Chin-Yew Lin, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Chuan-Jie Lin, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan
Jimmy Lin, University of Maryland, USA
Yang Lingpeng, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Yi Liu, Google, USA
Ting Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Fernando Llopis, University of Alicante, Spain
David Losada, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Jie Lu, IBM Research, USA
Yoelle Maarek, Google, Israel
Craig Macdonald, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Andrew MacFarlane, City University London, United Kingdom
Joao Magalhaes, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal
Bernardo Magnini, FBK-irst , Italy
Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Stephane Marchand-Maillet, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA
Cathy Marshall, Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, USA
Yosi Mass, IBM Research, Israel
Yuji Matsumoto, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Mark Maybury, The MITRE Corporation, USA
Paul McNamee, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Qiaozhu Mei, UIUC, USA
Tao Mei, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Edgar Meij, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Donald Metzler, Yahoo!, USA
Teruko Mitamura, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Mandar Mitra, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Vibhu Mittal, Google, USA
Stefano Mizzaro, Unversity of Udine, Italy
Dunja Mladenic, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, Slovenia
Marie-Francine Moens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Tatsunori Mori, Yokohama National University, Japan
Alessandro Moschitti, University of Trento, Italy
Henning Müller, HES SO Valais, Switzerland
Philippe Mulhem, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble, France
Masaki Murata, NICT, Japan
Vanessa Murdock, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Seung-Hoon Na, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Preslav Nakov, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ani Nenkova, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Erich Neuhold, Universität Wien, Austria
Chong-Wah Ngo, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jian-Yun Nie, DIRO, University of Montreal, Canada
Paul Ogilvie, mSpoke, USA
Jahna Otterbacher, University of Michigan, USA
Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Rina Panigrahy, Microsoft, USA
Cecile Paris, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia
Marius Pasca, Google, USA
Gabriella Pasi, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Fuchun Peng, Yahoo!, USA
Jeremy Pickens, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA
Benjamin Piwowarski, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Panayiota Polydoratou, City University London, United Kingdom
Jeffrey Pomerantz, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA
John Prager, IBM Research, USA
Tao Qin, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Dragomir Radev, University of Michigan, USA
Filip Radlinski, Microsoft Research, United Kingdom
Hema Raghavan, Yahoo! Labs, USA
Edie Rasmussen, University of British Columbia, Canada
Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Matthew Richardson, Microsoft Research, USA
Hae-Chang Rim, Korea University, South Korea
Henning Rode, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, The Netherlands
Horacio Rodriguez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Thomas Roelleke, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Patrick Ruch, University of Applied Sciences, Geneva , Switzerland
Horacio Saggion, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Shin'ichi Satoh, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Frank Schilder, Thomson Reuters, USA
Falk Scholer, RMIT University, Australia
m.c. schraefel, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Pavel Serdyukov, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Chirag Shah, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, USA
Dou Shen, Microsoft adCenter Labs, USA
Jialie Shen, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Milad Shokouhi, Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson, Yahoo!, Spain
Malika Smaïl-Tabbone, LORIA - Nancy-Université, France
Catherine Smith, Rutgers University, USA
Mark Smucker, University of Waterloo, Canada
Cees Snoek, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ian Soboroff, NIST, USA
Dawei Song, The Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom
Ruihua Song, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Alessandro Sperduti, Università di Padova, Italy
Padmini Srinivasan, University of Iowa, USA
Trevor Strohman, Google, USA
Tomek Strzalkowski, SUNY Albany, USA
Torsten Suel, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA
Hussein Suleman, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Aixin Sun, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jie Tang, Tsinghua University, China
Jinhui Tang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Michael Taylor, Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom
Jaime Teevan, Microsoft Research, USA
Simone Teufel, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Martin Theobald, Max-Planck Institute Informatics, Germany
Paul Thomas, CSIRO, Australia
Paul Thompson, Dartmouth College, USA
Qi Tian, University of Texas at San Antonio now at Microsoft Research, China
Anastasios Tombros, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom
Stephen Tomlinson, Open Text Corporation, Canada
Elaine Toms, Dalhousie University, Canada
Richard Tong, Tarragon Consulting Corporation, USA
Ricardo Torres, UNICAMP, Brazil
Andrew Trotman, University of Otago, New Zealand
Jun'ichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan
Howard Turtle, Syracuse University, USA
Antti Ukkonen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Sriharsha Veeramachaneni, Thomson Reuters, USA
Svetha Venkatesh, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Phil Vines, RMIT University, Australia
Stephen Wan, CSIRO, Australia
Xiaojun Wan, Peking University, China
Haifeng Wang, Toshiba R&D Center, China
Jun Wang, University College London, United Kingdom
Mark Wasson, LexisNexis, USA
William Webber, University of Melbourne, Australia
Wouter Weerkamp, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Xing Wei, Yahoo!, USA
Gerhard Weikum, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany
Thijs Westerveld, Teezir Search Solutions, The Netherlands
Ryen White, Microsoft Research, USA
Steve Whittaker, Sheffield University, United Kingdom
Lynn Wilcox, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, USA
Ross Wilkinson, ANDS, Australia
Max Wilson, Swansea University, United Kingdom
René Witte, Concordia University, Canada
Marcel Worring, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Iris Xie, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Dong Xu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Yiming Yang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Emine YIlmaz, Microsoft Research Cambridge, United Kingdom
Kai Yu, NEC Laboratories America, USA
Yong Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Shipeng Yu, Siemens Healthcare, USA
Yisong Yue, Cornell University, USA
Min Zhang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Lei Zhang, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Yi Zhang, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
Jun Zhao, NLPR, Institute of Automation, China
Dong Zhou, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Xiangdong Zhou, Fudan University, China

 

Additional reviewers

Bin An, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Nikolay Archak, New York University, USA
Joel Barajas, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Bodo Billerbeck, Microsoft Research, United Kingdom
Fabiano Botelho, CEFET-MG, Brazil
Janez Brank, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Karla Caballero, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
André Carvalho , UFAM, Brazil
Wanxiang Che, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Shane Culpepper, RMIT University, Australia
Na Dai, Lehigh University, USA
Jakob Frank, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Abhay Harpale, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
Ben He, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Willemijn Heeren, University of Twente, Netherlands
Liangjie Hong, Lehigh University, USA
Jeff Huang, University of Washington, USA
Qiang Huang, The Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom
Clodoveu Davis Jr., UFMG, Brazil
Abhimanyu Lad, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
Thomas Lidy, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Yue Lu, UIUC, USA
Giovanni Da San Martino, University of Padua, Italy
Rudolf Mayer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Blaz Novak, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Javier Parapar, University of A Coruña, Spain
Simon Puglisi, RMIT University, Australia
Xiaoguang Qi, Lehigh University, USA
Jan Rupnik, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Shuming SHI, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Konstantin Salomatin, Carnegie Mellon University, U.S.A.
Fabrizio Silvestri, National Council of Research, Italy
Jun Sun, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Vu Thuy, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Dolf Trieschnigg, University of Twente, Netherlands
Andrew Turpin, RMIT University, Australia
ChunYe Wang, University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
Jian Wang, Lehigh University, USA
Xuerui Wang, Yahoo!, USA
Laurens van der Werff, University of Twente, Netherlands
Zuobing ("Bing") Xu, EBay, USA
Zhenzhen Xue, Lehigh University, USA
Zaihan Yang, Lehigh University, USA
Dawei Yin, Lehigh University, USA
Duo Zhang, UIUC, USA
Hui Zhang, NUS, China
Peng Zhang, The Robert Gordon University, United Kingdom
Shiqi Zhao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

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