SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (AIRS 2010; Taipei, Taiwan) [REMINDER: SUBMISSION DEADLINE IN TWO WEEKS!] 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [SUBMISSION SITE NOW OPEN!] 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. Please upload your paper to the START submission system
at https://www.softconf.com/b/airs2010/ 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 |