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CALL FOR BIDS TO HOST
The Ninth Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference
(AIRS 2013)
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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 all the aspects, including applications, systems,
technologies and theory, of information retrieval in text, audio, image,
video, multimedia and social data, but with a particular emphasis on
handling Asian languages.
The AIRS Steering Committee invites interested parties to
submit bids to host AIRS 2013.
Detailed instructions for submitting a bid are available at
the AIRS Steering Committee homepage:
http://research.microsoft.com/airs
IMPORTANT DATES:
OCTOBER 26, 2012: Bid submissions due
DECEMBER 17-19, 2012: Decision announced at AIRS 2012 http://airs2012.tju.edu.cn/
and on the AIRS Steering Committee homepage http://research.microsoft.com/airs
WHERE TO SUBMIT:
Please submit the bid document as an email attachment
to Dawei Song d.song [at] rgu.ac.uk .
AIRS STEERING COMMITTEE
Hsin-Hsi Chen
Wai Lam
Gary Lee
Alistair Moffat
Hwee Tou Ng
Tetsuya Sakai (2012 Chair)
Dawei Song (2012 Vice-Chair)
Masaharu Yoshioka
PAST AIRS VENUES:
AIRS 2004 [Beijing, China]
AIRS 2005 [Jeju Island, Korea]
AIRS 2006 [Singapore]
AIRS 2008 [Harbin, China]
AIRS 2009 [Sapporo, Japan]
AIRS 2010 [Taipei, Taiwan]
AIRS 2011 [Dubai, UAE]
AIRS 2012 [Tianjin, China]