Los Cabos  

October 11-13 2010

Los Cabos, México

  
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String Processing and Information Retrieval Symposium

Program Committee

Amihood Amir, Bar-Ilan, Israel

Alberto Apostolico, Georgia Tech, USA and Padova, Italy

Mikhail Atallah, Purdue, USA

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain

Alvaro Barreiro, A Coruña, Spain

Paolo Boldi, Milano, Italy

Carlos Castillo, Yahoo! Research, Spain

Edgar Chavez, Michoacana, Mexico (co-chair)

Fabio Crestani, Lugano, Switzerland

Maxime Crochemore, Paris-Est, France

Bruce Croft, U. Massachusetts, USA

Andrea Esuli, CNR, Italy

Martin Farach-Colton, Rutgers, USA

Dan Gusfield, UC Davis, USA

Gregory Kucherov, CNRS, France

Stefano Lonardi, UC Riverside, USA (co-chair)

Alex Lopez-Ortiz, Waterloo, Canada

Giovanni Manzini, East Piedmont, Italy

Veli Mäkinen, Helsinki, Finland

Alistair Moffat, Melbourne, Australia

Costas Iliopoulos, King's College London, UK

Moshe Lewenstein, Bar-Ilan, Israel

Massimo Melucci, Padova, Italy

Ian Munro, Waterloo, Canada

Thierry Lecroq, Rouen, France

Gonzalo Navarro, U. Chile, Chile

Vibhu Mittal, Google, USA

Tao Jiang, UC Riverside, USA

Horacio Rodriguez, Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain

Kunihiko Sadakane, Kyushu, Japan

Marie-France Sagot, INRIA, France

Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser, Canada

Fabrizio Silvestri, CNR, Italy

Steven Skiena, Stony Brook, USA

Jens Stoye, Bielefeld, Germany

Gabriel Valiente, UPC, Spain

Nivio Ziviani, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Tel Aviv, Israel

Publicity/ Local Organization Committee

Jeremy Barbay (U. Chile, Chile)

Francisco Claude (Waterloo, Canada)

Marco Patella (U. Bologna, Italy)

Steering Committee

Amihood Amir (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Ricardo Baeza-Yates (coordinator) (Yahoo! Research Spain & Chile and CWR/DCC, University of Chile, Chile)

Heikki Hyyro (University of Tampere, Finland)

Jussi Karlgren (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)

Alistair Moffat (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

Jorma Tarhio (Aalto University, Finland)

Andrew Turpin (RMIT University, Australia)

Nivio Ziviani (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

 
 
 
 

Topics
The scope of the SPIRE series of conferences includes not only fundamental algorithms in SP and IR but also contributions in different application areas such as computational biology, DNA sequencing, WWW based IR systems, and IR related languages like SGML and XML. Given its inter-disciplinary nature, SPIRE offers a singular opportunity for researchers from computer science, information science, and engineering interested in working with problems related to these areas to meet and discuss how to collaborate towards the best solutions. 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.