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.

The scope of the conference covers applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of Information Retrieval in text, audio, image, video and multimedia data.

Submissions can either be:
•Full research paper – 12 pages (Springer format)
•Short research paper – 6 pages (Springer format)
•System demonstration papers – 4 pages + 2 pages of figures and tables (Springer format).


The technical areas covered include, but are not limited to, the following:
•IR Models and Theories
•IR Evaluation
•Search Engine Scalability
•Web IR and Social Media Search
•Query Analysis and Query Understanding
•User Study and Interactive IR
•Database IR and Structured Data
•Multimedia IR, Multilingual IR, Spoken IR
•Location-aware IR and Mobile IR
•Natural Language Processing for IR
•Filtering and Recommending
•Machine Learning, Clustering and Data Mining for IR
•IR Applications (e.g. Legal IR, Medical/Biomedical IR)


The AIRS 2015 proceedings will be published as a Springer’s LNCS volume.

The paper selection will follow a standard double-blind reviewing process.

Online Submission

Paper submissions must be completed electronically and in PDF format and should be submitted through the AIRS 2015 EasyChair submission system submission system. All papers should be formatted using Springer's manuscript submission guidelines.


Papers submission deadlines are as follow:

Paper submission deadline 19 Jul 2015
Posters and demos submission deadline 19 Jul 2015
Notification of acceptance 28 Aug 2015
Camera ready 4 Sep, 2015