About AIRS2004
Submission

• Instructions for submissions of papers (Deadline expired)
• Instructions for submissions of final camera-ready manuscripts (Deadline expired)

Important dates
Further Information

About AIRS2004

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.

AIRS2004 welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of information retrieval. Technical issues covered include, but are not limited to:

	IR theory
	Experimentation: test collection, corpus, evaluation methodology
	Systems and implementation issues: integration with network and database systems
	Natural language processing related issues: questioning and answering, summarization, term extraction, etc.
	Information filtering, routing and classification
	Application of IR technology: e-commerce, e-learning, etc.
	Web related issues: Web mining, search engine
	Cross- and multi-Lingual information retrieval
	Semantic Web and Ontology
	All the above aspects of IR for multimedia (image, video, audio) data, and related applications
	Information Retrieval in mobile settings
	Digital Library
	Etc.

The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as a LNCS (Lecture Series in Computer Science) after the symposium.

Submission

Instructions for submissions of papers (Deadline expired)

Authors of papers are invited to submit original contributions, not exceeding 5,000 words in English by e-mail. Due to the different font requirement, authors are strongly recommended to prepare their manuscripts using MS Word 2000 or in PDF format.

Submissions should be sent through the conference paper submission system at:
http://msrcmt.research.microsoft.com/AIRS2004/CallForPapers.aspx

Instructions for submissions of final camera-ready manuscripts (Deadline expired)

Authors are requested to provide the final camera-ready manuscripts in electronic version. Submitted papers MUST BE in Portable Document Format (PDF) format. NO OTHER FILE FORMATS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

The format of the final camera-ready manuscript  should comply with the guidelines stated by ACM. Please follow the instructions provided at the following URL to prepare your final manuscript: http://research.microsoft.com/nlc/airs2004/pubform.pdf or http://research.microsoft.com/nlc/airs2004/pubform.doc
Note: 1. The paper page size should be A4.
          2.  Please don't leave space for copyright notice.

A full paper is limited to 8 pages, and a poster paper is limited to 4 pages.  

Please be noticed that no copyright form or copyright notice are required in this submission.

Manuscript should be submitted as an email attachment to p-wwsun@msrchina.research.microsoft.com by the due date. The papers submitted later than it will not be included in the proceedings.

ALL ACCEPTED PAPERS MUST BE PRESENTED BY AN AUTHOR.

As a policy, each accept paper must be registered by at least one author (No author could register 2 papers). To have your paper presented at the conference and included in the conference Proceedings, the present author must complete the registration by August 31, 2004. Participators please visit AIRS2004 Registration Page to register. Note: Please give clear indication of the paper's ID on your registration form.

Important dates

Further Information

Either access http://research.microsoft.com/nlc/airs2004/ or contact AIRS2004 secretariat at the following address:

Dr. Jiangfeng Gao
AIRS2004 Secretariat
C/o Microsoft Research Asia
Sigma Centre, #49, Zhichun Road, Haidian District
Beijing, 100080, China
Email: jfgao@microsoft.com
Fax: (86-10) 8809-7305
Tel: (86-10) 62617711 ext 5778