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Date: 27 June 2011
From: Ali Farghaly <farghaly1 at gmail.com>
Subject: 7th Asia Info Retrieval Conf (AIRS 2011)

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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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