Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) 2008 was held in Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in January 15--18, 2008. This was the fourth AIRS conference in the series established in 2004. The previous conferences have been held in Beijing (2004), Jeju (2005) and Singapore (2006). The AIRS conferences trace their roots to the successful Information Retrieval with Asian Languages (IRAL) workshops, which started in 1996.
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