[dbjapan] Call for Papers: AIRS 2009

[Atsushi Fujii <fujii [at] slis.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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.
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The Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (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 symposium covers applications, systems, technologies and theory 
aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and 
multimedia data. The Fifth AIRS (AIRS 2009) welcomes submissions of 
original papers in the broad field of information retrieval. 
Technical issues covered include, but are not limited to: 

IR Theory and Formal Models; 
IR Evaluation, Test collections, Evaluation methods and metrics,
Experimental design, Data collection and analysis;
Interactive IR, User interfaces and visualization, User studies, 
User models, Task-based IR, User/Task-based IR theory;
Web IR, Intranet/enterprise search, Citation and link analysis,
Adversarial IR;
Distributed IR, Fusion/Combination, Digital libraries;
Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine 
translation for IR;
Video and image retrieval, Audio and speech retrieval, 
Music retrieval;
Topic detection and tracking, Routing, Content-based filtering,
Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering;
Question answering, Information extraction, Summarization, Lexical
acquisition, NLP for IR;
Text Data Mining and Machine Learning for IR.

Accepted papers will be published as part of the LNCS series from 
Springer, and will be EI-indexed. The AIRS 2009 organisers are also 
planning on a post-conference special issue in a renowned 
international journal, and the authors of the best papers at AIRS 
2009 will be encouraged to contribute to this issue.


IMPORTANT DATES

April 19, 2009     Submissions due
June 1, 2009       Notification of acceptance
June 16, 2009      Camera-ready due
September 1, 2009  Registration deadline
October 21-23 2009 AIRS 2009


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

The AIRS 2009 proceedings will be published as LNCS,
so please follow the default author instructions available at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0

In addition, please "anonymise" 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 2009 and to another conference 
at the same time), if detected, will also be rejected. Please 
upload your paper to the START submission system at
https://www.softconf.com/s08/AIRS2009/
by April 19, 2009. The Program Committee will carefully review it
and decide whether it should be accepted (either as a 12-page 
paper or as a 6-page poster) or not.

Once your paper gets accepted, you will be asked to send us a 
signed copyright form available at the above Springer website.
At least one author per paper must present the work at the 
conference. For updates, please visit the AIRS 2009 website.


ORGANIZATION

Honorary Conference Chair: Elizabeth Liddy (Syracuse University)

Conference Co-Chairs: Masaharu Yoshioka (Hokkaido University) and
Tetsuya Sakai (NewsWatch, Inc.)

Program Committee Co-Chairs: Chin-Yew Lin (Microsoft Research 
Asia), Gary Geunbae Lee (POSTECH) and Dawei Song (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 (Robert Gordon University) and
William Webber (University of Melbourne)

Finance Chair: Takuya Kida (Hokkaido University)


If you have any questions, please contact the conference co-chairs:
yoshioka [at] ist.hokudai.ac.jp and tetsuyasakai [at] acm.org