| Charles Clarke |
University of Waterloo, Canada |
| Fredric C. Gey |
University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Hideo Joho* |
University of Tsukuba, Japan |
| Gareth Jones |
Dublin City University, Ireland |
| Noriko Kando |
National Institute of Informatics, Japan |
| Sung-Hyon Myaeng |
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea |
| Stephen Robertson |
Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK |
| Tetsuya Sakai* |
Microsoft Research Asia, China |
| Eiichiro Sumita |
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan |