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CALL FOR PAPERS
Fourth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium
AIRS 2008
January-15-18, 2008, Harbin, China http://ir.hit.edu.cn/airs2008Organized by
Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)
Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPSC)
Aim
The international symposium 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 theoretical aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and multi-media data.
AIRS2008 welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of information retrieval. Technical issues covered include, but are not limited to:
- IR theories and models
- Text mining issues: classification, clustering, summarization, extraction
- Web related issues: web mining, search engine, semantic web
- Multimedia retrieval: image, video, audio, metadata
- Experimentation: test collection, corpus, evaluation methodology
- Systems and implementation issues: efficiency, integration
- Application of IR technology: e-commerce, e-learning, digital libraries, ubiquitous computing, bioinformatics, medical informatics, telematics, etc.
- Cross-language IR: retrieval with multiple languages
- Natural language processing and IR: Question answering, summarization, information extraction, libraries, ubiquitous computing, bioinformatics, etc.
The proceedings (including both regular and poster papers) will be published by Springer as part of their Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. All the Papers in the LNCS series will be EI-indexed.Authors are invited to submit original contributions, not exceeding 5,000 words in English (or 8 pages) for full papers and 4 pages for posters. Submissions should be in MS Word or PDF format.In submitting a paper or poster, the author agrees to present it at the conference if accepted.
Important Date (tentative)
Sep 01, 2007
Sep 08, 2007(new) |
Deadline for submissions (regular papers & posters)
Submit to: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/AIRS2008/ |
Oct 16, 2007
Oct 20, 2007(new) |
Notification of acceptance |
| Nov 15, 2007 |
Final camera-ready manuscripts due |
| Dec 04, 2007 |
Starting for on online registration |
| Jan 04, 2008 |
Deadline for online registration |
| Jan 15-18, 2008 |
AIRS2008 conference in Harbin |
Secretariat
Professor Ting Liu,
School of Computer Science and Technology
Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)
Harbin, China
Email: airs@ir.hit.edu.cn
Conference Organization
Steering Committee
Jun Adachi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Lee-Feng Chien, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea
Mun-Kew Leong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Sung Hyon Myaeng, Information and Communication University, Korea
Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Tetsuya Sakai, NewsWatch, Inc., Japan
Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Honorary Conference Chair:
Sheng Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
General Co-Chair
Wei-Ying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia
Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Program Committe Co-Chairs
Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia
Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada
Organisation Committee
Youqi Cao, Chinese Information Processing Society of China, China [Co-Chair]
Ting Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China [Co-Chair]Tetsuya Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan [Publicity co-chair and ECIR liasion]
Dawei Song, Open Univesrity, UK [Publicity co-chair] Le Sun, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China [Finance Co-Chair]
Munkew Leong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore [Finance Co-chair]Muyun Yang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China [Local Organisation Chair]
Wanxiang Che, Harbin Institute of Technology, China [Webmaster]Guodong Zhou, Suzhou University, China [Publication co-chair]
Tetsuya Sakai, NewsWatch, Inc., Japan [Publication co-chair]
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