Second Call for Papers

[Ali Farghaly]

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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 27th, 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 27th, 2011
* Notification of acceptance: Sept 1st, 2011
* Camera-ready due: Sept 17th , 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 

AREA CHAIRS
Arabic Script text Processing and Retrieval
Ali Farghaly, Oracle, USA 
IR Models and Theories
Minjie Zhang, University of Wollongong, Australia 
Multimedia IR
Joemon M Jose, University of Glasgow, UK 
User Study, IR Evaluation, and Interactive IR
Tetsuya Sakai, Microsoft Research Asia 
Web IR, scalability and adversarial IR
Min Zhang, Tsinghua University, China 
IR Applications
Kazunari Sugiyama, National University of Singapore, Singapore 
Machine learning for IR
Tie-Yan Liu, Microsoft Research Asia 
Natural Language Processing for Information retrieval
Chia-Hui Chang, National Central University, Taiwan