CALL FOR PAPERS
Fourth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium
AIRS 2008
January-16-18, 2008, Harbin, China

http://ir.hit.edu.cn/airs2008

Sponsors

Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT)
Chinese Information Processing Society of China (CIPSC)
Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)

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 Deadline for submissions (regular papers & posters)
Oct 16, 2007 Notification of acceptance
Nov 15, 2007 Final camera-ready manuscripts due
Dec 01, 2007 Deadline for online registration
Jan 16-18, 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