•        On the Mono- and Cross-Language Detection of Text Reuse and Plagiarism
Alberto Barrón-Cedeño (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)

•        User Interface Designs to Support the Social Transfer of Web Search Expertise
Neema Moraveji (Stanford University)

•        Leveraging User Interaction and Collaboration for Improving Multilingual Information Access in Digital Libraries
Juliane Stiller (Humboldt Universität)

•        Entity Information Management in Complex Networks
Yi Fang (Purdue University)

•        Finding People and their Utterances in Social Media
Wouter Weerkamp (University of Amsterdam)

•        Leveraging User-Generated Content for News Search
Richard McCreadie (University of Glasgow)

•        User Centered Story Tracking
Ilija Subasic (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

•        Reverse Annotation Based Retrieval from Large Document Image Collections
Pramod Sankar K. (IIT Hyderabad)

•        Learning Passage-based Discriminative Hidden Variable Models for Information Retrieval
Mengqiu Wang (Stanford University)

•        Investigation on Smoothing and Aggregation Methods in Blog Retrieval
Mostafa Keikha (University of Lugano)

•        Aiming for User Experience in Information Retrieval: Towards User-Centered Relevance (UCR)
Frans Van der Sluis (University of Twente)