GOLD
SPONSOR

• Information
  Retrieval
  Facility
  
• Microsoft
  Research
  Asia
  

BRONZE
SPONSOR

• Ricoh Co., Ltd.

The Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2009)

October 21-23, 2009 at Conference Hall Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.

In cooperation with ACM SIGIR and IPSJ SIGFI

• 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
• 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, Collaborative filtering, Agents, Spam filtering
• Question answering, Information extraction, Summarization, Lexical acquisition, NLP for IR
• Text Data Mining and Machine Learning for IR

• Registration desk will be open from 9:00 am at Conference Hall, Hokkaido University .

• Program is updated at program page.

• FAQ for registration is updated at registration page.

• AIRS 2009 WWW server will be stoped on September 13, 2009.

• FAQ for registration is updated at registration page.
• Information about keynote speech, banquet and excursion is updated at program page.

• FAQ for registration is updated at registration page.

• Problem about e-mail address for registration is fixed.
• Information about special meal request is updated at registratoin page.

• Registration information is updated.

• Travel information is updated.

• Program page is updated.
• Deadline of the early registration is extended.

• Web page is updated.
• Tentative registration information is updated. Information about final registration procedure will be released soon.

• Japanese Visa:

  Information about Visa inquiry is updated. There are some requests on invitation letter for Japanese Visa.

• Japanese Visa:

  There are some requests on invitation letter for Japanese Visa. We will let you know the procedure for the request when it's ready (we plan to upload this information before end of June). Please wait while.

• List of accepted regular papers and accepted poster papers are updated.