| 9:00 - 9:15 | Welcome |
| 9:15 - 9:45 | A survey of search engines for XML documents - Luk, Chan, Dillon, Leong, HongKong Polytechnic University |
| Session I: Query languages | |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | XIRQL -- an extension of XQL for information retrieval, Fuhr and Grossjohann, Dortmund University, Germany |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | A Type System for Querying XML documents - A. Albano, D. Colazzo, G. Ghelli, P. Manghi, C. Sartiani, University di Pisa ,Italy |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| Session II: Retrieval algorithms | |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Searching text-rich XML documents - Hayashi, Tomita, Kikui , NTT Cyberspace Laboratories, Japan |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | XQL and Proximal nodes - Baeza-Yates and Navarro, Universidad de Chile, Chile |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Approximate Tree Embedding for querying XML data, Schlieder and Naumann, Freie Universitat Berlin |
| 12:45 - 13:45 | Lunch |
| Session III: IR systems for XML documents | |
| 13:45 - 14:10 | XYZfind: Searching in Context with XML - Egnor and Lord, XYZFind Corporation, Seattle, Washington, USA |
| 14:10 - 14:35 | Querying
XML Documents in Xyleme - Vincent Aguilera Sophie Cluet
Pierangelo Veltri Fanny Wattez
INRIA project, France |
| 14:35 - 15:00 | XMLFS: An XML-Aware File System - Azagury, Factor, Mandler, IBM Research Lab in Haifa, Israel |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Searching Annotated Language Resources in XML- Nancy Ide, ,Vassar College, USA |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | What's next - an open discussion |