- Gerhard Weikum — plenary session
- Ben Carterette, Evangelos Kanoulas, and Emine Yilmaz. Advances in Information Retrieval Evaluation
- Sihem Amer-Yahia and Julia Stoyanovich. Top-K Processing for Search and Information Discovery in Social Applications
- Stefan Rueger. Multimedia queries and indexing
- Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, and Fabrizio Silvestri. Mining query logs to improve web wearch engines' operations
- Mike Thelwall. Sentiment Strength Detection in the Social Web
- Vladimir Gorovoy and Yana Volkovich. An Introduction to Social Mining
- Katja Filippova. Monolingual Text-to-Text Generation — short course
- Chirag Shah. Collaborative IR — short course