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, user
log analysis
* Multimedia retrieval: image, video, audio, music, 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 and multilingual IR: translation, result merging,
retrieval with multiple languages
* Natural language processing and IR: Question answering,
summarization, information extraction, etc. using IR techniques or
for IR

The proceedings (including both regular and poster papers) will be
published by Springer as part of their Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS) series (pending). Papers in the 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_*

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 AIRS’2008 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

*_Conference Organization_*

*Steering Committee:*

Jun Adachi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Hsin-Hsi Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Lee-Feng Chien, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Gary Geunbae Lee, POSTECH, Korea
Mun-Kew Leong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
Helen Meng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Sung Hyon Myaeng, Information and Communication University, Korea
Hwee Tou Ng, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Tetsuya Sakai, NewsWatch, Japan
Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Ming Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia, China

*Honorary Conference Chair:*

Sheng Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

*General Co-Chairs:*

Weiying Ma, Microsoft Research Asia
Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

*Program Committe Co-Chairs:*

Hang Li, Microsoft Research Asia
Jian-Yun Nie, University of Montreal, Canada

*Organisation Committee:*

Youqi Cao, Chinese Information Processing Society of China, China [Co-Chair]
Ting Liu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China [Co-Chair]

Tetsuya Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan [Publicity co-chair and
ECIR liasion]
Dawei Song, Open Univesrity, UK [Publicity co-chair]

Le Sun, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
[Finance Co-Chair]
Munkew Leong, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore [Finance Co-chair]

Muyun Yang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China [Local Organisation Chair]
Wanxiang Che, Harbin Institute of Technology, China [Webmaster]

Guodong Zhou, Suzhou University, China [Publication co-chair]
Tetsuya Saki NewsWatch, Japan [Publication co-chair]