<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto">**Apologies for cross postings. Please redistribute to other interested parties**<BR>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS <BR>The Seventh Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011) <BR> December 18th -20th, 2011 <BR> Dubai (United Arab
Emirates)<BR> <A style="RIGHT: auto" href="http://www.uowdubai.ac.ae/airs2011">www.uowdubai.ac.ae/airs2011</A> <BR> NEW SUBMISSION DUE: July 17th, 2011</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>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>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>Technical issues covered include, but are not limited to the following:<BR>1. IR Models and Theories <BR>2. User Study, IR Evaluation, and Interactive IR <BR>3. Web IR, Scalability, and Adversarial IR <BR>4. Multimedia IR <BR>5. NLP for IR (eg. Cross-/Multi- Language IR, Question Answering, Summarization, Information Extraction) <BR>6. Machine Learning and Data Mining for IR (eg. Learning to Rank, Classification, Clustering)<BR>7. IR Applications (eg. Digital Libraries, Vertical Search, Mobile IR)<BR>8. Arabic-Script based IR<BR>9. Cross Language IR<BR></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">IMPORTANT DATES <BR>* Submission Due: July 17th, 2011<BR>* Notification of acceptance: August 25th, 2011<BR>* Camera-ready due: Sept 10th , 2011<BR>* Registration: November 1st, 2011<BR>* AIRS2011: December 18th-20th</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS <BR>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>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">Program Committee Chair<BR>Khaled Shaalan, British University in Dubai <BR><A href="mailto:khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae">khaled.shaalan@buid.ac.ae</A> </div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Conference Co-Chairs<BR>Mohamed Val Salem, University of Wollongong in Dubai<BR><A style="RIGHT: auto" href="mailto:MohamedSalem@UOWDubai.ac.ae">MohamedSalem@UOWDubai.ac.ae</A></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong in Dubai<BR><A href="mailto:FarhadOroumchian@UOWDubai.ac.ae">FarhadOroumchian@UOWDubai.ac.ae</A> </div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Publicity Chair<BR>Asma Damankesh, University of Wollongong in Dubai<BR><A href="mailto:AsmaDamankesh@UOWDubai.ac.ae">AsmaDamankesh@UOWDubai.ac.ae</A></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Abolfazl AleAhmad, University of Tehran<BR><A href="mailto:a.aleahmad@ece.ut.ac.ir">a.aleahmad@ece.ut.ac.ir</A></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Publication Chair<BR>Kathy Shen, University of Wollongong in Dubai<BR>Dr. Azadeh Shakery, University of Tehran </div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><BR>AREA CHAIRS<BR>Arabic Script text Processing and Retrieval<BR>Ali Farghaly, Oracle, USA </div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">IR Models and Theories<BR>Minjie Zhang, University of Wollongong, Australia </div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Multimedia IR<BR>Joemon M Jose, University of Glasgow, UK </div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">User Study, IR Evaluation, and Interactive IR<BR>Tetsuya Sakai, Microsoft Research Asia </div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Web IR, scalability and adversarial IR<BR>Min Zhang, Tsinghua University, China </div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">IR Applications<BR>Kazunari Sugiyama, National University of Singapore, Singapore </div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Machine learning for IR<BR>Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia </div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Natural Language Processing for Information retrieval<BR>Chia-Hui Chang, National Central University, Taiwan </div>
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