Second Call for Papers

Ali Farghaly alifarghaly at yahoo.com
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                           SECOND 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 
                        NEW SUBMISSION DUE:  July 17th, 2011
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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
IMPORTANT DATES 
* Submission Due:    July 17th, 2011
* Notification of acceptance: August 25th, 2011
* Camera-ready due:    Sept 10th , 2011
* Registration:     November 1st, 2011
* AIRS2011:      December 18th-20th
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS 
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. 

Program Committee Chair
Khaled Shaalan, British University in Dubai 
khaled.shaalan at buid.ac.ae 
Conference Co-Chairs
Mohamed Val Salem, University of Wollongong in Dubai
MohamedSalem at UOWDubai.ac.ae
Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong in Dubai
FarhadOroumchian at UOWDubai.ac.ae 
Publicity Chair
Asma Damankesh, University of Wollongong in Dubai
AsmaDamankesh at UOWDubai.ac.ae
Abolfazl AleAhmad, University of Tehran
a.aleahmad at ece.ut.ac.ir
Publication Chair
Kathy Shen, University of Wollongong in Dubai
Dr. Azadeh Shakery, University of Tehran 



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