SIGIR 2007 program committee

Program committee members

Ghaleb Abdulla (University of Califoenia, USA)
Maristella Agosti (University of Padova, Italy)
Per Ahlgren (University College of Borås, Sweden)
Helena Ahonen-Myka (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Eija Airio (Department of Information Studies, Finland)
Riitta Alkula (University of Tampere, Finland)
Gianni Amati (Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy)
Einat Amitay (IBM Research Haifa Lab, Israel)
Peter Anick (Yahoo, USA)
Shlomo Argamon (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Paavo Arvola (University of Tampere, Finland)
Javed Aslam (Northeastern University, USA)
Anne Aula (Google, Inc., US)
Peter Bailey (CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)
Mark Baillie (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Roberto Basili (University of Roma, Italy)
Holger Bast (Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics, Germany)
Steve Beitzel (Telcordia Technologies, USA)
Nicholas Belkin (SCILS, Rutgers University, USA)
Paul Bennett (Microsoft Research, USA)
Stefano Berretti (University of Firenze, Italy)
Catherine Blake (UNC, USA)
David Bodoff (university of haifa, Israel)
Christine Borgman (University of Calfornia Los Aangels, US)
Theo Bothma (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Mohand Boughanem (University Paul Sabatier-IRIT, France)
Giorgio Brajnik (University of Udine, Italy)
Martin Braschler (ZHW Zurich Univ. of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)
Eric Brown (IBM Research, USA)
Peter Bruza (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Chris Buckley (Sabir Research, US)
Stefan Buettcher (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Katriina Byström (University College of Borås, Sweden)
Deng Cai (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Yunbo Cao (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Jaime Carbonell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
David Carmel (IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel)
Ben Carterette (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Jeong-Won Cha (Changwon National University, Korea)
Kuang-hua Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Zheng Chen (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Pu-Jen Cheng (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Lee-Feng Chien (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Abdur Chowdhury (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Jennifer Chu-Carroll (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Kenneth Church (Microsoft, USA)
Massimiliano Ciaramita (Yahoo!, Spain)
Aaron Cohen (Oregon Health & Science University, USA)
Erica Cosijn (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Fabio Crestani (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Gautam Das (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Fernando Das Neves (Snoop Consulting SRL, Argentina)
Hal Daume III (University of Utah, USA)
Brian Davison (Lehigh University, USA)
Franciska de Jong (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Arjen de Vries (CWI, The Netherlands)
Fernando Diaz (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Anne Diekema (Syracuse University, USA)
Ajay Divakaran (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA)
Byron Dom (Yahoo! Applied Research, USA)
Sandor Dominich (University of Pannonia, Hungary)
Debora Donato (Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain)
Antoine Doucet (IRISA - INRIA Rennes, France)
J. Stephen Downie (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Susan Dumais (Microsoft Research, USA)
Efthimis Efthimiadis (University of Washington, USA)
David Eichmann (The University of Iowa, USA)
Charles Elkan (University Calfornia San Diego, USA)
Marcus Fontoura (Yahoo! Research, USA)
David Forsyth (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Dmitriy Fradkin (Ask.com, USA)
Martin Franz (IBM, USA)
Jim French (University of Virginia, USA)
Luanne Freund (University of Toronto, Canada)
Ophir Frieder (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Xin Fu (University of North Carolina, USA)
Johannes Fuernkranz (Technology University Darmstadt, Germany)
Atsushi Fujii (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
Sumio Fujita (Yahoo Japan Corporation, Japan)
Patrick Gallinari (UniversitEPierre & Marie Curie - Paris 6, France)
Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research, USA)
Susan Gauch (University of Kansas, USA)
Eric Gaussier (University of Grenoble, France)
Fredric Gey (University of California Berkeley, USA)
Rayid Ghani (Accenture Technology Labs, USA)
Lee Giles (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Mark Girolami (University of Glasgow, UK)
Eric Glover (Ask Jeeves, USA)
Melanie Gnasa (Fraunhofer-Institut fE Intelligente Analyse, Germany)
Ayse Goker (City University, UK)
Julio Gonzalo (UNED, Spain)
Warren Greiff (MITRE Corporation, USA)
Iyengar Gridharan (IBM, USA)
David Grossman (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Daniel Gruhl (IBM, USA)
Stephanie Haas (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Alan Hanjalic (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Preben Hansen (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
Donna Harman (NIST, USA)
Daqing He (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Turid Hedlund (Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration, Finland)
Andreas Henrich (University of Bamberg, Germany)
Monika Henzinger (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Bill Hersh (Oregon Health & Science University, USA)
Morten Hertzum (Roskilde University, Denmark)
Maureen Heymans (Google, USA)
Djoerd Hiemstra (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Jimmy Huang (York University, Canada)
David Hull (Clairvoyance Corp, USA)
Peter Ingwersen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark)
Panagiotis Ipeirotis (New York University, USA)
Makoto Iwayama (Hitachi, Ltd., Japan)
Bernard Jansen (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Eric Jensen (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Valentin Jijkoun (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Rong Jin (Michigan State University, USA)
Feng Jing (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Jose Joemon (University of Glasgow, UK)
Hideo Joho (University of Glasgow, UK)
Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Lee Jong-Hyeok (POSTECH, Korea)
Vanja Josifovski (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Marko Junkkari (University of Tampere, Finland)
Jaap Kamps (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Bo-young Kang (Soeul National University, Korea)
Jussi Karlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
Gabriella Kazai (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)
Heikki Keskustalo (University of Tampere, Finland)
Kimmo Kettunen (University of Tampere, Finland)
Chris Khoo (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Sang-Bum Kim (NHN Corporation, Korea)
Kazuaki Kishida (Keio University, Japan)
Shmuel Klein (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Moshe Koppel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
Don Kraft (Louisiana State University, USA)
Oren Kurland (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Nicholas Kushmerick (QL2 Software Inc., USA)
Kui-Lam Kwok (Queens College, City University of New York, USA)
Wai Lam (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Monica Landoni (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Birger Larsen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark)
Ray Larson (University of Calfornia Berkeley, USA)
Gary G. Lee (POSTECH, Korea)
Lillian Lee (Cornell University, USA)
Miro Lehtonen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Azzopardi Leif (University of Glasgow, UK)
Ronny Lempel (IBM Research, Israel)
Mun-Kew Leong (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Michael Lesk (Rutgers University, USA)
Anton Leuski (Institute for Creative Technologies, USA)
Gina-Anne Levow (University of Chicago, USA)
Hang Li (Microsoft, China)
Mingjing Li (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Ee-Peng Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Chin-Yew Lin (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Chuan-Jie Lin (National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan)
Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland, USA)
Xia Lin (Drexel University, USA)
Krister Linden (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Greger Lindén (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland)
Tie-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
David Losada (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Jie Lu (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Robert Luk (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, PRC)
Thomas Lynam (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Craig Macdonald (University of Glasgow, UK)
Stephane Marchand-Maillet (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Gary Marchionini (University of North Carolia Chapel Hill, USA)
Maarten Marx (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
James Mayfield (JHU/APL, USA)
Robert McArthur (CSIRO, Australia)
J. Scott McCarley (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA)
Paul McNamee (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Massimo Melucci (University of Padua, Italy)
Helen Meng (The Chinese Unversity of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Donald Metzler (University of Massachusetts, USA)
Natasa Milic-Frayling (Microsoft Research, UK)
einat minkov (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Gilad Mishne (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Mandar Mitra (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
Vibhu Mittal (Google, USA)
Stefano Mizzaro (University of Udine, Italy)
Dunja Mladenic (J. Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Alistair Moffat (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Christof Monz (Queen Mary, University of London UK)
Javed Mostafa (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)
Josiane Mothe (IRIT, France)
Edleno Moura (Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil)
Henning Mueller (Service for medical informatics, Switzerland)
Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo! Barcelona, Spain)
Gheorghe Muresan (Rutgers University, USA)
Gonzalo Navarro (University of Chile, Chile)
Craig Nevill-Manning (Google, USA)
Hwee Tou Ng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Charles Nicholas (UMBC, USA)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada)
Zaiqing Nie (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Andreas Nuernberger (University of Magdeburg, Germany)
Michael Oakes (University of Sunderland, UK)
Paul Ogilvie (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
James Olsson (University of Maryland, USA)
Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow, UK)
Gerhard Paass (Fraunhofer AIS, Germany)
Andreas Paepcke (Stanford University, USA)
Chris Paice (Lancaster University, UK)
Pietro Pala (University of Florence, Italy)
Gabriella Pasi (UniversitEdegli Studi di Milano Bicocca, Italy)
Virgil Pavlu (Northeastern Univ, US)
Vivien Petras (Social Science Information Centre Bonn, Germany)
Daniela Petrelli (University of Sheffield, UK)
Nils Pharo (Oslo University College, Norway)
Jeremy Pickens (FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc., USA)
Ari, Pirkola (University of Tampere, Finland)
Benjamin Piwowarski (Yahoo! Research Latin America, Chile)
Dulce Ponceleon (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA)
Jay Ponte (Google Inc. USA)
Michael Preminger (Oslo University College, Norway)
Katharina Probst (Accenture Technology Labs, USA)
Filip Radlinski (Cornell University, USA)
Hema Raghavan (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Edie Rasmussen (Univesity of British Columbia, Canada)
Andreas Rauber (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (Google Engineering Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
Matthew Richardson (Microsoft Research, USA)
John Riedl (University of Minnesota, USA)
Hae-Chang Rim (Korea Universtiy, Korea)
Knut Magne Risvik (Google, Norway)
Kerry Rodden (Google, USA)
Thomas Roelleke (Queen Mary University, UK)
Dan Rose (Yahoo! Inc., USA)
Dmitri Roussinov (Arizona State University, USA)
Miguel Ruiz (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Tetsuya Sakai (NewsWatch, Inc. JAPAN)
Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK)
Diana Santos (SINTEF ICT, Norway)
Ralf Schenkel (Max-Planck-Institut Informatik, Germany)
Falk Scholer (RMIT University, Australia)
Hinrich Schuetze (University of Stuttgart, germany)
Jayavel Shanmugasundaram (Yahoo! Inc., USA)
Bradshaw Shannon (Drew University, USA)
Rao Shen (Yahoo!, USA)
Paraic Sheridan (TextWise, USA)
Mario Silva (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Malcolm Slaney (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Frank Smadja (Independent, Israel)
Barry Smyth (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Dagobert Soergel (University of Maryland, USA)
Aya Soffer (IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel)
Dawei Song (Open University, UK)
Ruihua Song (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Eero Sormunen (University of Tampere, Finland)
Alessandro Sperduti (University of Padova, Italy)
Amanda Spink (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Anslem Spoerri (Rutgers University, USA)
Padmini Srinivasan (University of Iowa, USA)
Benno Stein (Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany)
Tomek Strzalkowski (SUNY Albany, USA)
Hussein Suleman (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
John Tait (University of Sunderland, UK)
Michael Taylor (Microsoft, UK)
Jaime Teevan (Microsoft Research, USA)
Ulrich Thiel (Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany)
Paul Thomas (Australian National University, Australia)
Paul Thompson (Dartmouth College, USA)
Anastasios Tombros (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Andrew Tomkins (Yahoo! Research, USA)
Stephen Tomlinson (Open Text Corporation, Canada)
Elaine Toms (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Richard Tong (Tarragon Consulting Corporation, USA)
Andrew Trotman (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Theodora Tsikrika (Queen Mary University of London UK)
Andrew Turpin (RMIT University, Australia)
Howard Turtle (CogiTech, usa)
Evelyne Tzoukermann (Comcast / StreamSage, USA)
Trystan Upstill (Google, USA)
Roelof van Zwol (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Olga Vechtomova (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Anne-Marie Vercoustre (INRIA, France)
Phil Vines (RMIT University, Australia)
Ellen Voorhees (NIST, USA)
Nina Wacholder (Rutgers University, USA)
Jianqiang Wang (The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
Jun Wang (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
Peiling Wang (University of Tennessess, USA)
Bonnie Webber (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Gerhard Weikum (Max-Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany)
Ji-Rong Wen (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Thijs Westerveld (CWI, The Netherlands)
Ryen White (Microsoft Research, USA)
Ross Wilkinson (CSIRO, Australia)
Maria Wimmer (University of Koblenz, Germany)
Xiayun Wu (Google, USA)
Wensi Xi (Google Inc, USA)
Jinxi Xu (BBN, USA)
Murat Yakici (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Rong Yan (IBM TJ Watson Research, USA)
Kiduk Yang (Indiana University, USA)
Yiming Yang (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Emine Yilmaz (Northeastern University, USA)
Clement Yu (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
Kai Yu (NEC Labs America, USA)
Oren Zamir (Google, USA)
Hugo Zaragoza (Yahoo Research, Spain)
Hongyuan Zha (Georgia Tech, USA)
Dell Zhang (University of London, UK)
Lei Zhang (Microsoft Research Asia, China)
Shichao Zhang (Guangxi Normal University, China)
Yi Zhang (University of California Santa Crz, USA)
Aoying Zhou (Fudan University, China)
Nivio Ziviani (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Justin Zobel (RMIT University, Australia)

Best paper award committee

Einat Amitay (IBM Research, Israel)
Jay Aslam (Northeastern University, USA)
Nicholas Belkin (Rutgers University, USA)
Peter Bruza (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Fabio Crestani (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Jussi Karlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
Jaana Kekäläinen (University of Tampere, Finland)
Wai Lam (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Gary Marchionini (University of North Carolina, USA)
Edleno Silva de Moura (University Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
Ari Pirkola (University of Tampere, Finland)
Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK), Chair
Airi Salminen (University of Toronto, Canada)
ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Demonstration committee

Peter Bailey (CSIRO, Australia)
Ingo Frommholz (Fraunhofer-IPSI, Germany)
Udo Kruschwitz (University of Essex, UK)
Mun-Kew Leong (Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
Juan Manuel Ferna'ndez Luna (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
Christof Monz (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada)
Paul Ogilvie (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Thomas Roelleke (Queen Mary, University of London, UK), Chair
Andrew Trotman (University of Otago, New Zealamd)

Doctoral consortium committee

Nick Belkin (Rutgers University, USA)
Bruce Croft (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
Anne Diekema (Syracuse University, USA)
Sue Dumais (Microsoft Research, USA)
David Harper (Google, UK)
Liz Liddy (Syracuse University, USA), Chair
Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland, USA)
Stephan E. Robertson (Microsoft Research, UK)
Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK)
Elaine Toms (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Ross Wilkinson (CSIRO, Australia)

Tutorial committee

Jianfeng Gao (Microsoft Research, USA)
Donna Harman (NIST, USA)
Peter Ingwersen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark)
Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland, USA)
Isabelle Moulinier (The Thomson Corporation, USA)
Jian-Yun Nie (University of Montreal, Canada)
Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK)
Ross Wilkinson (CSIRO, Australia)
ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Chair

Workshop committee

Peter Anick (Yahoo! Inc., USA)
Peter Bruza (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
Tat-Seng Chua (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Kalervo Jarvelin (University of Tampere, Finland)
Gareth Jones (Dublin City University, Ireland)
Gina-Anne Levow (University of Chicago, USA)
Josiane Mothe (Université de Toulouse, France), Chair
Jian-Yun Nie (Université de Montréal, Canada)
Iadh Ounis (University of Glasgow, UK)

Mentors

Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, USA)
Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo! Research, Spain)
Shannon Bradshaw (Drew University, USA)
Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
David Carmel (IBM Research, Israel)
Gordon Cormack (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Nick Craswell (Microsoft Research, UK)
Stephen Downie (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Evgeniy Gabrilovich (Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Bill Hersh (Oregon Health & Science University, USA)
David Hull (Justsystems Evans Research, USA)
Rong Jin (Michigan State University, USA)
Jussi Karlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
Kui-Lam Kwok (Queens College, City University of New York, USA)
Mounia Lalmas (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
Monica Landoni (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Tao Li (Florida International University, USA)
Stéphane Marchand-Maillet (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
Douglas W. Oard (University of Maryland, USA)
Laurence Park (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Stephan E. Robertson (Microsoft Research, UK)
Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Mark Sanderson (University of Sheffield, UK), Chair
Jacques Savoy (Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
Ian Soboroff (NIST, USA)
Dawei Song (The Open University, UK)
Elaine Toms (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Tassos Tombros (Queen Mary, University of London, UK)
ChengXiang Zhai (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Justin Zobel (National ICT Australia, Australia)