<div dir="ltr"><p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">AIRS 2013 (<a href="http://www.colips.org/conference/airs2013/" target="_blank">http://www.colips.org/conference/airs2013/</a>) </span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Last Call for Papers:</span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">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. The scope of the
conference covers applications, systems, technologies and theory
aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and
multimedia data.</span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">The AIRS 2013 welcomes
submissions of original papers in the broad field of Information
Retrieval. The technical areas covered include, but are not limited to,
the following:</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> 1. IR Models and Theories
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<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> 2. User Study, IR Evaluation and Interactive IR
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<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="ES">3. Web IR, Scalability and IR in Social Media</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="ES"> 4. Multimedia IR</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)" lang="ES"> </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">5. Natural Language Processing for IR</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> 6. Machine Learning and Data Mining for IR</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> 7. IR Applications</span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">The AIRS 2013
proceedings will be published as a Springer’s LNCS volume. According to
this, all submissions should comply with the corresponding author
instructions available at the Springer's LNCS website:
<a href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0" target="_blank">http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0</a>
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<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">The paper selection
will follow a standard double-blind reviewing process, so submissions
must not include author names, affiliations or self-references. Maximum
paper length is 12 pages in the LNCS format. Submissions
not following these guidelines, as well as duplicated submissions, will
be rejected unconditionally.</span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Paper submissions must be completed electronically and in PDF format to the following URL:
<a href="https://www.softconf.com/e/airs2013/" target="_blank">https://www.softconf.com/e/airs2013/</a>
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<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Important Dates:</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> • <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">June 23rd</span></span>, Paper Submission Due</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> • <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">June 30th</span></span>: Extended submission update period.*</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> • <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">July 28th</span></span>, Notification of Acceptance</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> • <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">August 11th</span></span>, Camera Ready Due</span></p>
<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> • <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">December 9th – 11th</span></span> AIRS 2013 in Singapore</span></p>
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<p class=""><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">* Paper updates can be uploaded into the system until <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">June 30th</span></span>, but a paper draft (or at least an abstract) should be submitted by <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">June 23rd</span></span>.</span></p>
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