筑波大学の藤井と申します． 情報検索に関する国際会議AIRS 2009の論文投稿募集案内を 送付させていただきます．どうぞよろしくお願いいたします． ##################################################################### CALL FOR PAPERS 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. ##################################################################### The Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (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 symposium covers applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and multimedia data. The Fifth AIRS (AIRS 2009) welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of information retrieval. Technical issues covered include, but are not limited to: IR Theory and Formal Models; IR Evaluation, Test collections, Evaluation methods and metrics, Experimental design, Data collection and analysis; Interactive IR, User interfaces and visualization, User studies, User models, Task-based IR, User/Task-based IR theory; Web IR, Intranet/enterprise search, Citation and link analysis, Adversarial IR; Distributed IR, Fusion/Combination, Digital libraries; Cross-language retrieval, Multilingual retrieval, Machine translation for IR; Video and image retrieval, Audio and speech retrieval, Music retrieval; Topic detection and tracking, Routing, Content-based filtering, Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering; Question answering, Information extraction, Summarization, Lexical acquisition, NLP for IR; Text Data Mining and Machine Learning for IR. Accepted papers will be published as part of the LNCS series from Springer, and will be EI-indexed. The AIRS 2009 organisers are also planning on a post-conference special issue in a renowned international journal, and the authors of the best papers at AIRS 2009 will be encouraged to contribute to this issue. IMPORTANT DATES April 19, 2009 Submissions due June 1, 2009 Notification of acceptance June 16, 2009 Camera-ready due September 1, 2009 Registration deadline October 21-23 2009 AIRS 2009 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The AIRS 2009 proceedings will be published as LNCS, so please follow the default author instructions available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 In addition, please "anonymise" 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 2009 and to another conference at the same time), if detected, will also be rejected. Please upload your paper to the START submission system at https://www.softconf.com/s08/AIRS2009/ by April 19, 2009. The Program Committee will carefully review it and decide whether it should be accepted (either as a 12-page paper or as a 6-page poster) or not. Once your paper gets accepted, you will be asked to send us a signed copyright form available at the above Springer website. At least one author per paper must present the work at the conference. For updates, please visit the AIRS 2009 website. ORGANIZATION Honorary Conference Chair: Elizabeth Liddy (Syracuse University) Conference Co-Chairs: Masaharu Yoshioka (Hokkaido University) and Tetsuya Sakai (NewsWatch, Inc.) Program Committee Co-Chairs: Chin-Yew Lin (Microsoft Research Asia), Gary Geunbae Lee (POSTECH) and Dawei Song (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 (Robert Gordon University) and William Webber (University of Melbourne) Finance Chair: Takuya Kida (Hokkaido University) If you have any questions, please contact the conference co-chairs: yoshioka@ist.hokudai.ac.jp and tetsuyasakai@acm.org