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.
Since 2004 the Asian Information Retrieval Societies (AIRS2011) has played a significant role in Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval research areas with a focus on Asian and international Languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and English. The recent years of AIRS has witnessed a great success in the IR and NLP field and has become a well-known conference in region by evaluating large set of high quality research papers which presented research result on diversity of areas such as Multimedia and Web IR, Machine Learning and Data Mining, etc.
AIRS2010 had received 120 papers from which 26 were accepted as regular paper for presentation and 31 were accepted for poster presentation.
AIRS 2011 will be hosted by the University of Wollongong in Dubai, 18-20 December 2011, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
