he Chinese and Oriental Languages Information Processing Society (COLIPS) is glad to host AIRS 2013 in Singapore, a well communicated and top conference city in Asia, from 9 to 11 December. The Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS) aims to bring together researchers and developers to exchange new ideas and latest achievements in the field of Information Retrieval. The scope of the conference covers applications, systems, technologies and theory a spects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video and multimedia data. The AIRS 2013 welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of Information Retrieval. The technical areas covered include, but are not limited to, the following: IR Models and Theories; User Study, Evaluation and Interactive IR; Web IR, Scalability and IR in Social Media; Multimedia IR; Natural Language Processing for IR; Machine Learning and Data Mining for IR; and IR Applications.