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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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