CfP: SPIRE 2007 - String Processing and Information Retrieval

PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
SPIRE 2007 - String Processing and Information Retrieval

October 29-31, 2007
Santiago, Chile

INTRODUCTION

SPIRE 2007 is a Symposium on String Processing and Information
Retrieval which is in its fourteenth edition.  The first four editions
focused primarily on string processing and held in South America,
called WSP (South American Workshop on String Processing).  Starting
in 1998,  the focus of the workshop was  broadened to include
information retrieval due to its increasing relevance and its
inter-relationship with the area of string processing. In addition,
 since 2000, the conference venue has been in Europe in even years.
The last conferences have been in Padova (Italy), Buenos Aires
(Argentina), and Glasgow (UK).  As in past editions, the proceedings
of SPIRE 2007 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in
Computer Science series.

SYMPOSIUM SITE

The symposium will be organized by the Center for Web Research of the
Dept. of Computer Science of the University of Chile in downtown
Santiago. Santiago, the capital of Chile, is an energetic city in the
Maipo valley and the foothills of the Andes mountains, with the
Mapocho River crossing it from east to west. The most remarkable thing
about Santiago, with its 5 million inhabitants, is perhaps its
diversity. It is a city with many faces, great and  varied changes, a
social and political landscape that sometimes takes us back to the
colonial city it once was, and also well known for excellent seafood
and wine.  The Pacific ocean, vineyards or ski resorts are all at most
100kms away.

TOPICS

SPIRE 2007 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 compression, text mining, natural language processing,
and automata based string processing.

* Information Retrieval (IR): IR modeling, indexing, ranking and
filtering, interface design, visualization, cross-lingual IR systems,
multimedia IR, digital libraries, collaborative retrieval, and Web
related applications.

* Interaction of biology and computation: DNA sequencing and
applications in molecular biology, evolution and phylogenetics,
recognition of genes and regulatory elements, and sequence driven
protein structure prediction.

* Information Retrieval languages and applications: XML,
semi-structured data retrieval, text mining, and generation of
structured data from text.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
  Nivio Ziviani, UFMG, Brazil

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
  Amihood Amir
  Alberto Apostolico
  Chris Buckley
  Maxime Crochemore
  Martin Farach-Colton
  Kimmo Fredriksson
  Raffaele Giancarlo
  Heikki Hyyrö
  Lucian Ilie
  Costas Iliopoulos
  Juha Kärkkäinen
  Mounia Lalmas
  Tak-Wah Lam
  Thierry Lecroq
  Andrew MacFarlane
  Veli Mäkinen
  Giovanni Manzini
  Massimo Melucci
  Alistair Moffat
  Edleno Moura
  Ian Munro
  Gonzalo Navarro
  Arlindo Oliveira
  Mathieu Raffinot
  Kunihiko Sadakane
  Marie-France Sagot
  Joao Setubal
  Rahul Shah
  Altigran Silva
  Fabrizio Silvestri
  Wing-Kin Sung and
  Gabriel Valiente
  Hugo Zaragoza
  Justin Zobel

TENTATIVE DATES
* Paper submission: April 16, 2007
* Authors notification: June 18, 2007
* Camera ready: July 8, 2007