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  Introduction to IR

  Fabio Crestani, University of Lugano, Switzerland

  Introduction to DB

  Maurizio Lenzerini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

   A DB Perspective on IR

  Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft Research, USA

   Semantic Search

  Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield, UK

   Keyword Search in Databases

  Sonia Bergamaschi, University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, Italy
  Francesco Guerra, University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, Italy

  Semistructured Data Search

  Krisztian Balog, University of Stavanger, Norway

   Bridging IR and DBs

  Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

   IR Evaluation 

  Ian Soboroff, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA

   Metrics, Statistics, Tests

   Tetsuya Sakai, Microsoft Research Asia, China

  Semistructured Data Search Evaluation

  Ralf Schenkel, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Germany

  Evaluation of Semantic Technologies  

  Peter Mika, Yahoo! Research, Spain

  Evaluation wrt Usefulness                               

  Omar Alonso, Microsoft Research, USA

  Sharing Scientific and Research Data

  Peter Wittenburg, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands

  Evaluation Infrastructures

  Nicola Ferro, University of Padua, Italy

  From Evaluation To Applications  

  Martin Braschler, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

  Evaluation on Social Media

  Maarten de Rijke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands