String Processing and Information Retrieval
 

SPIRE'2005 is a Symposium on String Processing and
Information Retrieval which is in its twelth edition. The first four
editions focused primarily on string processing and South America, and
were called WSP (South American Workshop on String Processing).

Starting in 1998, the focus of the workshop was broadened to include
the area of 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.

As in past editions, the proceedings of SPIRE'2005 will be published
by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

Topics

SPIRE'2005 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, SGML,
information retrieval from semi-strutured data, text mining, and
generation of structured data from text.

Important Dates

Paper submission: June 7, 2005
Authors notification: July 19, 2005
Conference dates: November 2-4, 2005