筑波大学の藤井と申します． 情報検索の国際シンポジウムAIRS 2009の参加募集をお送りします． 奮ってご参加ください．9/15までの参加登録には割引が適用されます． ##################################################################### CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2009) http://www-kb.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/AIRS2009/ October 21-23, 2009 at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. In cooperation with ACM SIGIR and IPSJ SIGFI Featuring a keynote by ACM SIGIR Chair Elizabeth Liddy (Syracuse University): "Question-Answering in the Inverse" AND MORE! ##################################################################### The online registration page is now open! http://www-kb.ist.hokudai.ac.jp/AIRS2009/registration.html *** Early registration discount deadline: September 15 (timezone: GMT -12:00) *** For Japanese participants: Please also consider joining the First Information Access Symposium (IAS) organised by IPSJ SIGFI on October 20, also at Hokkaido University. For more information, please visit: http://www.ipsj.or.jp/katsudou/sig/sighp/fi/cfp/IAS2009/ AIRS 2009 Organisation: Honorary Conference Chair: Elizabeth Liddy (Syracuse University) Conference Co-Chairs: Masaharu Yoshioka (Hokkaido University) and Tetsuya Sakai (Microsoft Research Asia) PC Co-Chairs Chin-Yew Lin (MSRA), Gary Geunbae Lee (POSTECH), and Dawei Song (The Robert Gordon University) Publication Co-Chairs: Akiko Aizawa (NII) and Kazuko Kuriyama (Shirayuri College) Publicity Co-Chairs: Atsushi Fujii (University of Tsukuba), Ian Soboroff (NIST), Dawei Song (The Robert Gordon University) and William Webber (University of Melbourne) Finance Chair: Takuya Kida (Hokkaido University) See you in Sapporo!