The IRF at a glance

Year of foundation

2007


Status

Non-profit society


Founding members

9 of the top IR scientists* worldwide and Matrixware GmbH


Scientific Board

  • C.J. “Keith” van Rijsbergen* (Chairman), University of Glasgow, UK
  • Yves Chiaramella* (Vice-Chairman), Université Joseph Fourier, FR
  • Maristella Agosti, University of Padova, IT
  • Gerhard Budin, University of Vienna, AT
  • Jamie Callan*, Carnegie Mellon University, US
  • Kilnam Chon*, Korea Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, KR
  • W. Bruce Croft*, University of Massachusetts Amherst, US
  • Hamish Cunningham*, University of Sheffield, UK
  • Norbert Fuhr*, Universität Duisburg-Essen, DE
  • David Hawking*, Funnelback Internet & Enterprise Search, AU
  • Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, JP
  • Arcot Desai Narasimhalu*, Singapore Management University, SG
  • John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility, AT
  • Benjamin T’sou, City University of Hong Kong, HK
  • Gerhard Budin, Center for Translation Studies, University of Vienna,  AT

Executive Board

  • Francisco E. de Sousa Webber (Chairman)
  • Daniel Schreiber (Treasurer)

The IRF in figures

  • More than 250 members worldwide
  • € 1.5 million EU grants acquired in 2010
  • 19 million multilingual patents standardized in XML format
  • Over 1 billion web pages in 10 languages
  • 240 TB primary high speed storage
  • 3 international symposia organized in Vienna since 2007
  • Over 30 scientific publications since 2009