AIRS 2009 Call for Paper

The Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) aims to bringtogether researchers and developers to exchange new ideas and latestachievements in the field of information retrieval (IR). The scope ofthe symposium covers applications, systems, technologies and theoryaspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video andmultimedia data. The Fifth AIRS (AIRS 2009) welcomes submissions oforiginal papers in the broad field of information retrieval. Technicalissues covered include, but are not limited to:

1. IR theories, models and techniques
2. Evaluation methodologies, test collections, evaluation metrics, etc.
3. IR interface and user studies: exploratory search, collaborative search, etc.
4. Multilingual information access: cross-language IR, cross-language question answering, etc.
5. Multimedia information access: image, video, audio, metadata
6. Natural language processing and IR: opinion extraction, summarization, text mining, categorization, etc.
7. Web related issues: Web search,Web mining, Semantic Web, etc.
8. Systems and implementation issues: indexing, compression, efficiency, integration, etc.
9. IRapplications: e-commerce, e-learning, digital libraries, ubiquitouscomputing, bioinformatics, medical informatics, telematics, etc.
   

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