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[ntcir:332] Call for participation: AIRS 2009
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- Subject: [ntcir:332] Call for participation: AIRS 2009
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:05:42 +0900 (JST)
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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2009)
http://www-kb.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/AIRS2009/
October 21-23, 2009 at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
In cooperation with ACM SIGIR and IPSJ SIGFI
Featuring a keynote by ACM SIGIR Chair Elizabeth Liddy (Syracuse University):
"Question-Answering in the Inverse" AND MORE!
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The online registration page is now open!
http://www-kb.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/AIRS2009/registration.html
*** Early registration discount deadline:
September 15 (timezone: GMT -12:00) ***
For Japanese participants: Please also consider joining the
First Information Access Symposium (IAS) organised by IPSJ SIGFI
on October 20, also at Hokkaido University.
For more information, please visit:
http://www.ipsj.or.jp/katsudou/sig/sighp/fi/cfp/IAS2009/
AIRS 2009 Organisation:
Honorary Conference Chair:
Elizabeth Liddy (Syracuse University)
Conference Co-Chairs:
Masaharu Yoshioka (Hokkaido University) and
Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft Research Asia)
PC Co-Chairs
Chin-Yew Lin (MSRA), Gary Geunbae Lee (POSTECH), and
Dawei Song (The Robert Gordon University)
Publication Co-Chairs:
Akiko Aizawa (NII) and Kazuko Kuriyama (Shirayuri College)
Publicity Co-Chairs:
Atsushi Fujii (University of Tsukuba), Ian Soboroff (NIST),
Dawei Song (The Robert Gordon University) and
William Webber (University of Melbourne)
Finance Chair:
Takuya Kida (Hokkaido University)
See you in Sapporo!
Dr Tetsuya Sakai
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/tesakai/