LINGUIST List 22.2470 Tue Jun 14 2011 Calls: Computational Linguistics/United Arab Emirates Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Khaled Shaalan , 7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference Message 1: 7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference Date: 14-Jun-2011 From: Khaled Shaalan <khaled.shaalanbuid.ac.ae> Subject: 7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: 7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference Short Title: AIRS 2011 Date: 18-Dec-2011 - 20-Dec-2011 Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Contact Person: Khaled Shaalan Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Web Site: http://www.uowdubai.ac.ae/airs2011 Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics Call Deadline: 07-Jul-2011 Meeting Description: The 7th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011) December 18th -20th, 2011 Dubai (United Arab Emirates) http://www.uowdubai.ac.ae/airs2011 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 2011 welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of information retrieval. Call for Papers: 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 (e.g. Cross-/Multi- Language IR, Question Answering, Summarization, Information Extraction) 6. Machine Learning and Data Mining for IR (e.g. Learning to Rank, Classification, Clustering) 7. IR Applications (e.g. Digital Libraries, Vertical Search, Mobile IR) 8. Arabic-Script based IR 9. Cross Language IR Important Dates: Submission Due: July 7th, 2011 Notification of acceptance: August 15th, 2011 Camera-ready due: August 30th, 2011 Registration: November 1st, 2011 AIRS2011: December 18th-20th Submission Instructions: The AIRS 2011 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 2011 and to another conference at the same time) are strictly forbidden; if detected, these submissions will be unconditionally rejected. Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 14-Jun-2011       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.