Following the success of the international workshop on Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL) series, held in Taejon (1996), Tsukuba (1997), Singapore (1998), Taipei (1999), Hong Kong (2000) and Sapporo (2003), and the increasing R&D activities in information retrieval worldwide, the Asian information retrieval community establishes the first Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS2004).

The symposium aims to bring together international 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 multi-media data.

Conference Venue: Beijing Friendship Hotel
Conference Date: October 18-20,2004