The Tenth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS2014)

3 – 5 December 2014
Hotel Grand Margherita, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

AIRS Conference is an annual event organised together with the Asia Information Retrieval Society ( http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/groups/airs/) since 2004. This year, AIRS 2014 will be held in Kuching, Sarawak, MALAYSIA on 3rd – 5th December 2014 hosted by the Malaysia Society of Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (PECAMP).

The Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS) aims to bring together researchers and developers to exchange new ideas and latest achievements in the field of Information Retrieval. The scope of the conference covers applications, systems, technologies and theoretical aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and multimedia data.

The AIRS 2014 welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of Information Retrieval. The technical areas covered include, but are not limited to, the following:

IR Models and Theories
User Study, IR Evaluation and Interactive IR
Web IR, Scalability and IR in Social Media
Multimedia IR
Natural Language Processing for IR
Machine Learning and Data Mining for IR
IR Applications

Important Dates

Submission Due (extended): 22 June 2014
Notification of acceptance: 7 Aug 2014
Camera-ready due: 1 August 2014
Registration: 15 August 2014
Conference Date: 3-5 December 2014

Submission Instructions

The AIRS 2014 proceedings will be published as a Springer’s LNCS volume, 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 ensure that the 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 2014 and to another conference at the same time) are strictly forbidden; if detected, these submissions will be unconditionally rejected.
The paper submission for AIRS 2014 will only be accepted through the EDAS Paper Submission System at http://edas.info/N17183

Prof. Dr. Zainab Abu Bakar
Conference Co-Chair
airs2014.pecamp@gmail.com