Best Paper Award Chair :
- Norbert Fuhr (Universität Duisburg-Essen, DE)
Best Paper Award Committee:
- Eugene Agichtein (Emory University, US)
- Nick Belkin (Rutgers University, US)
- Chris Buckley (Sabir Research, US)
- Norbert Fuhr (Universität Duisburg-Essen, DE) - Chair
- Jaana Kekäläinen (University of Tampere, FI)
- Alistair Moffat (University of Melbourne, AU)
- Maarten de Rijke (University of Amsterdam, NL)