CALL FOR PAPERS

SPIRE 2010

17th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval

October 11-13 2010

Los Cabos, Mexico

http://spire2010.natix.org

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 25 2010 for abstracts and June 27 for full papers.

INTRODUCTION

SPIRE 2010 is the 17th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval. The first four editions of the conference focused primarily on string processing and were held in South America under the title of WSP (South American Workshop on String Processing). WSP was transformed into SPIRE in 1998, when the scope of the conference was broadened to include information retrieval. This was motivated by the increasing relevance of information retrieval and its close inter-relationship with string processing. The last three SPIRE conference sites have been: Santiago, Chile (2007), Melbourne, Australia (2008) and Saariselkä, Finland (2009). The conference proceedings have been published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series since 2002. This tradition continues also in 2010.

LOCATION

SPIRE 2010 will be co-organized by the School of Physics and Mathematics at Universidad Michoacana, in Morelia, Mexico and the CICESE research center in Ensenada, Mexico. The conference will take place at the premiere resort area of Los Cabos, Mexico. With an incredible array of first-class resorts, world class fishing, activities for the entire family and elegant dining venues, Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo have much to offer. The conference venue will be the Los Cabos Grand Faro Resort in San Jose del Cabo.

TOPICS

SPIRE 2010 covers research in all aspects of string processing, information retrieval, computational biology, pattern matching, semi-structured data, and related applications. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

** String Processing: Dictionary algorithms, Text searching, Pattern matching, Text and sequence compression, Automata based string processing.

** Information Retrieval: Information retrieval models, Indexing, Ranking and filtering, Interface design, Visualization, Benchmarking.

** Natural language processing: Text analysis, Text mining, Machine learning, Information extraction, Language models (both structural and semantic), Knowledge representation.

** Search applications and usage: Cross-lingual information access systems, Multimedia information access, Digital libraries, Collaborative retrieval and Web related applications, Semi-structured data retrieval, Evaluation.

** Interaction of biology and computation: DNA sequencing and applications in molecular biology, Evolution and phylogenetics, Recognition of genes and regulatory elements, Sequence driven protein structure prediction.

** Efficient implementation of IR systems: Practical implementations with strong experimental support, toolkits for IR systems. Algorithms and data structures for IR.

SUBMISSION

SPIRE 2010 welcomes submissions varying from short 6-page papers up to long 12-page papers. Submissions should be anonymous and formatted using LNCS style. At least three reviewers will evaluate each paper based on its originality, quality and significance of theoretical and/or practical contribution, the validity and robustness of the methodology used, and the overall contribution to understanding the context of the work. Any paper may be accepted as a short or a long contribution; the former will receive less time for presentations and fewer pages in the proceedings.

STUDENT SPONSORSHIP

Yahoo! Research has generously offered sponsorship for some student support packages that cover SPIRE 2010 registration fees and provide partial support for accommodation costs for volunteers. See the conference website for more information.

INVITED SPEAKERS

SPIRE 2010 will feature invited lectures by

Gonzalo Navarro (U. Chile, Chile) and

Mark Najork (Microsoft Research)

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