The Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS) aims to bring together researchers and developers working in the field of information retrieval (IR) to present new research results, exchange new ideas and demonstrate new systems. The scope of the conference covers applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and multimedia data. The 15th AIRS (AIRS 2019) welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of information retrieval.

AIRS 2019 website: http://airs2019.ouhk.edu.hk/

Technical issues covered include, but are not limited to:

IR theory and formal models
IR evaluation, test collections and evaluation measures, experimental design
IR user models, behavioral analysis
IR user interfaces, visualization, user studies
Interactive IR, conversational IR, dialogue systems
Query intent, search result diversification, personalization and privacy
Web search, enterprise search, link analysis, adversarial IR
Distributed IR, IR efficiency and scalability
Digital libraries
Cross-language retrieval, machine translation for IR
Mobile IR, multimedia IR, social media IR
Filtering and recommendation
Text mining and natural language processing for IR
Deep learning/machine learning for IR
IR applications (e.g. educational, legal, political, medical)