- Christina Unger (Bielefeld University, Germany)
- Alessandro Moschitti (University of Trento, Italy)
- Dina Demner-Fushman (National Library of Medicine, USA)
- Roser Morante (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
- Allan Hanbury (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
- Gregory Grefenstette (Exalead Dassault Systèmes, France)
- Eduard Hovy (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
- Hagit Shatkay (University of Delaware, USA)
- Alan Aronson (National Library of Medicine, USA)
- Brigitte Grau (LIMSI/CNRS, France)
- Diego Molla (Macquarie University, Australia)
- Yutaka Sasaki (Toyota Technological Institute, USA)
- Andreas Presidís (Biovista, Greece)
- John Prager (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA)
- Ellen Voorhees (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
- Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann (University of Zurich, Switzerland / The European Bioinformatics Institute)
- Claire Nédellec ( INRA, France)