Deadline extended: AIRS 2009

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PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 26:
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.

In cooperation with ACM SIGIR
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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 26, 2009 Submissions due (NEW DEADLINE)
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.


SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES:

Please visit
http://www-kb.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/AIRS2009/sponsorship.html .


ORGANIZATION

Honorary Conference Chair: Elizabeth Liddy (Syracuse University)

Conference Co-Chairs: Masaharu Yoshioka (Hokkaido University) and
Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft Research Asia)

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)

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

Area Chairs:

Information Retrieval Models and Theories
- Tien-Yan Liu (Microsoft Research Asia)
- David Losada (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)

Interactive Information Retrieval
-Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde)

Search
- Andrew Turpin (RMIT)
- Min Zhang (Tsinghua University)

QA, Summarization and IE
- Teruko Mitamura (CMU)

Multimedia Retrieval
- Gareth Jones (Dublin City University)

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