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