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CALL FOR PAPERS (AIRS 2010; Taipei, Taiwan)
The Sixth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2010)
December 1-3, 2010
Conference Hall, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
In cooperation with ACM SIGIR and ACLCLP ROCLING
http://irlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/airs2010
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The Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS) aims to bring together researchers and developers to exchange new ideas and latest achievements in the field of information retrieval (IR). The scope of the conference covers applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video, and multimedia data. The AIRS 2010 welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of information retrieval. Technical issues covered include, but are not limited to the following:
1. IR Models and Theories
2. User Study, IR Evaluation, and Interactive IR
3. Web IR, Scalability, and Adversarial IR
4. Multimedia IR
5. NLP for IR (eg. Cross-/Multi- Language IR, Question Answering,
Summarization, Information Extraction)
6. Machine Learning and Data Mining for IR (eg. Learning to Rank, Classification,
Clustering)
7. IR Applications (eg. Digital Libraries, Vertical Search, Mobile IR)
Accepted papers will be published as part of the LNCS series by Springer, and will be EI-indexed.
IMPORTANT DATES
June 30, 2010 Submissions due July 31, 2010 Notification of acceptance August 14, 2010 Camera-ready due November 1, 2010 Registration deadline December 1-3, 2010 AIRS 2010
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
The AIRS 2010 proceedings will be published as an LNCS volume, so please follow the default author instructions available at:
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0
In addition, please anonymize your paper to facilitate blind reviewing, and make sure your paper is no longer than 12 pages in the LNCS format. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines will be rejected unconditionally.
Duplicate submissions (the same paper being submitted to AIRS 2010 and to another conference at the same time) are strictly forbidden; if detected, these submissions will be unconditionally rejected.
For paper submission and related information, please visit the AIRS 2010 website.
ORGANIZATION
Honorary Conference Chair: Si-Chen Lee, President, National Taiwan University
Conference Chair: Pu-Jen Cheng, National Taiwan University
Publication Chair: Preslav Nakov, National University of Singapore
Finance Chair: Lun-Wei Ku, National Taiwan University
Program Committee Co-Chairs: Wai Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore
Webmaster: Chien-Wen Chen, National Taiwan University
AREA CHAIRS
IR Models and Applications Min Zhang, Tsinghua University Bin Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
User Study, IR Evaluation, and Interactive IR Tetsuya Sakai, Microsoft Research Asia William Webber, University of Melbourne
Web IR, Scalability, and Adversarial IR Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow
Multimedia IR Winston Hsu, National Taiwan University Kazunari Sugiyama, National University of Singapore
NLP for IR Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne Atsushi Fujii, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Machine Learning and Data Mining for IR Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia Yi Zhang, University of California Santa Cruz