CALL FOR PAPERS (AIRS 2010; Taipei, Taiwan)



The Sixth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2010)

December 1-3, 2010 at 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