The 31st Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
20-24 July 2008, Singapore

Organisation Committee


General Co-Chairs :
Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore)
Mun-Kew Leong (National Library Board, Singapore)

Technical Program Co-Chairs
:
Sung Hyon Myaeng (Information and Communications University, Korea)
Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
Fabrizio Sebastiani (National Council of Research, Italy)

Posters and Demos Co-Chairs
:
Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Efthimis N. Efthimiadis (University of Washington, USA)
Hang Li (Microsoft Research Asia, China)

Tutorials Chair
:
Edie M. Rasmussen (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Workshop Co-Chairs
:
Peter Anick
(Yahoo! Inc, USA)
Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore)

Mentors Chair
:
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada)

Best Paper Award Chair
:
Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
:
Susan Dumais (Microsoft Research)
Andrew Trotman (University of Otago, New Zealand)

Publicity Co-Chairs
:
Soumen Chakrabarti (IIT Bombay, India)
Colleen Cool (Queens College, City University of New York, USA)
Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Ming Zhou (Microsoft Research Asia, China)

Publication Chair
:
Ee-Peng Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Registration Chair
:
Min-Yen Kan (National University of Singapore)

Webmasters
:
Junhan Zhu (National University of Singapore)

Local Arrangements
:
Haizhou Li (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Hwee-Hwa Pang (Singapore Management University)

Finance Chair
:
Wee-Sun Lee (National University of Singapore)

Conference Secretariat
:
Siew-Foong Ho (National University of Singapore)