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Directory         1.    Preslav Nakov, Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference Message 1: Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference Date: 18-Jun-2010 From: Preslav Nakov <preslavngmail.com> Subject: Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference Short Title: AIRS 2010 Date: 01-Dec-2010 - 03-Dec-2010 Location: Taipei, Taiwan Contact Person: Preslav Nakov Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://irlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/airs2010 Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 30-Jun-2010 Meeting Description: 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 (IR). The scope of the conference covers applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video, and multimedia data. Call for Papers AIRS 2010; Taipei, Taiwan [Reminder: Submission Deadline In Two Weeks!] The Sixth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2010) December 1-3, 2010 at Conference Hall, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. In cooperation with ACM SIGIR and ACLCLP ROCLING. http://irlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw/airs2010 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 (IR). The scope of the conference covers applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video, and multimedia data. The AIRS 2010 welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of information retrieval. Technical issues covered include, but are not limited to the following: 1. IR Models and Theories 2. User Study, IR Evaluation, and Interactive IR 3. Web IR, Scalability, and Adversarial IR 4. Multimedia IR 5. NLP for IR (eg. Cross-/Multi- Language IR, Question Answering, Summarization, Information Extraction) 6. Machine Learning and Data Mining for IR (eg. Learning to Rank, Classification, Clustering) 7. IR Applications (eg. Digital Libraries, Vertical Search, Mobile IR) Accepted papers will be published as part of the LNCS series by Springer, and will be EI-indexed. Important Dates June 30, 2010 Submissions due July 31, 2010 Notification of acceptance August 14, 2010 Camera-ready due November 1, 2010 Registration deadline December 1-3, 2010 AIRS 2010 Submission Instructions [Submission Site Now Open!] The AIRS 2010 proceedings will be published as an 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 anonymize 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 2010 and to another conference at the same time) are strictly forbidden; if detected, these submissions will be unconditionally rejected. Please upload your paper to the START submission system at https://www.softconf.com/b/airs2010/ Organization Honorary Conference Chair Si-Chen Lee, President, National Taiwan University Conference Chair Pu-Jen Cheng, National Taiwan University Publication Chair Preslav Nakov, National University of Singapore Finance Chair Lun-Wei Ku, National Taiwan University Program Committee Co-Chairs Wai Lam, Chinese University of Hong Kong Min-Yen Kan, National University of Singapore Webmaster Chien-Wen Chen, National Taiwan University Area Chairs IR Models and Applications Min Zhang, Tsinghua University Bin Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences User Study, IR Evaluation, and Interactive IR Tetsuya Sakai, Microsoft Research Asia William Webber, University of Melbourne Web IR, Scalability, and Adversarial IR Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow Multimedia IR Winston Hsu, National Taiwan University Kazunari Sugiyama, National University of Singapore NLP for IR Timothy Baldwin, University of Melbourne Atsushi Fujii, Tokyo Institute of Technology Machine Learning and Data Mining for IR Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia Yi Zhang, University of California Santa Cruz Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 19-Jun-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.