<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Mon 27 June 2011<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: 7th Asia Info Retrieval Conf (AIRS 2011)<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 27 June 2011<br>From: Ali Farghaly <<a href="mailto:farghaly1@gmail.com">farghaly1@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: 7th Asia Info Retrieval Conf (AIRS 2011)<br><br><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS </div><div>The Seventh Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011) </div><div> December 18th -20th, 2011 </div><div> Dubai (United Arab Emirates)</div><div> <a href="http://www.uowdubai.ac.ae/airs2011">www.uowdubai.ac.ae/airs2011</a> </div><div> NEW SUBMISSION DUE: July 17th, 2011</div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Technical issues covered include, but are not limited to the following:</div><div>1. IR Models and Theories </div><div>2. User Study, IR Evaluation, and Interactive IR </div><div>3. Web IR, Scalability, and Adversarial IR </div><div>4. Multimedia IR </div><div>5. NLP for IR (eg. Cross-/Multi- Language IR, Question Answering, Summarization, Information Extraction) </div><div>6. Machine Learning and Data Mining for IR (eg. Learning to Rank, Classification, Clustering)</div><div>7. IR Applications (eg. Digital Libraries, Vertical Search, Mobile IR)</div><div>8. Arabic-Script based IR</div><div>9. Cross Language IR</div><div>IMPORTANT DATES </div><div>* Submission Due: July 17th, 2011</div><div>* Notification of acceptance: August 25th, 2011</div><div>* Camera-ready due: Sept 10th , 2011</div><div>* Registration: November 1st, 2011</div><div>* AIRS2011: December 18th-20th</div><div><br></div><div>SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS </div><div>The AIRS 2011 proceedings will be published as an LNCS volume, so please follow the default author instructions available at <a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0</a> . 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.</div><div><br></div><div>Program Committee Chair</div><div>Khaled Shaalan, British University in Dubai</div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae">khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae</a></div><div><br></div><div>Conference Co-Chairs</div><div>Mohamed Val Salem, University of Wollongong in Dubai</div><div><a href="mailto:MohamedSalem@UOWDubai.ac.ae">MohamedSalem@UOWDubai.ac.ae</a></div><div><br></div><div>Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong in Dubai</div><div><a href="mailto:FarhadOroumchian@UOWDubai.ac.ae">FarhadOroumchian@UOWDubai.ac.ae</a></div><div><br></div><div>Publicity Chair</div><div>Asma Damankesh, University of Wollongong in Dubai</div><div><a href="mailto:AsmaDamankesh@UOWDubai.ac.ae">AsmaDamankesh@UOWDubai.ac.ae</a></div><div><br></div><div>Abolfazl AleAhmad, University of Tehran</div><div><a href="mailto:a.aleahmad@ece.ut.ac.ir">a.aleahmad@ece.ut.ac.ir</a></div><div><br></div><div>Publication Chair</div><div>Kathy Shen, University of Wollongong in Dubai</div><div>Dr. Azadeh Shakery, University of Tehran</div><div><br></div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 27 June 2011</body></html>