Call for Papers - AIRS 2016

• The Twelfth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2016)
• November 30 – December 2, 2016 at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
• In cooperation with ACM SIGIR
• Hosted by the Chinese Information Processing Society of China
• Co-organized by Tsinghua University and Renmin University of China
• Website: http://airs2016.ruc.edu.cn or http://183.174.228.12

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 Twelfth AIRS (AIRS 2016) welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of information retrieval.

Submissions can either be:

• Full research paper – 12 pages
• Short research paper – 6 pages, with a poster presentation and/or live/demo presentation (if accepted)

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;
• Query intent, Personalized web search, Search result diversification;
• 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;
• Filtering and Recommendation;
• Natural Language Processing for IR;
• Text Data Mining and Machine Learning for IR;
• IR Applications (e.g. Legal IR, Medical/Biomedical IR)

Accepted papers will be published as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series from Springer, and will be EI-indexed.

Important Dates

Abstract due	3 Jul, 2016
Research paper due	10 Jul, 2016
Posters and demos due	10 Jul, 2016
Notification of acceptance	12 Aug, 2016
Camera ready	19 Aug, 2016
Early bird registration closes	9 Oct, 2016
Normal Registration closes	6 Nov, 2016
Late/On site Registration	6 Nov - 2 Dec, 2016
AIRS2016 Conference	30 Nov - 2 Dec, 2016

Submission Instructions

The AIRS 2016 proceedings will be published as LNCS, so please follow the default author instructions available at Springer's manuscript submission guidelines

In addition, please "anonymize" your paper to facilitate double-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 2016 and to another conference at the same time), if detected, will also be rejected. Please upload your paper to the EasyChair submission system at AIRS 2016 EasyChair submission system by the submission deadline.

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 2016 Website.