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Date: 15 Jun 2011
From: Prof_Khaled Shaalan <khaled.shaalan at gmail.com>
Subject: AIRS 2011

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                                                            CALL FOR PAPERS 
                                 The Seventh Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011) 
                                                            December 18th -20th, 2011 
                                                           Dubai (United Arab Emirates)
                                                            www.uowdubai.ac.ae/airs2011 

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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. 

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)
8. Arabic-Script based IR
9. Cross Language IR

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IMPORTANT DATES 
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* 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

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SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS 
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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. 

Regards,
Khaled
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Khaled Shaalan, PhD
Professor
Computer Science Dept.
Faculty of Computers & Information
Cairo University

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