18th Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval
(SPIRE 2011)
Pisa, Italy
October 17--21, 2011
http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/
SPIRE 2011 is the 18th edition of the International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval. It will will take place at the National Council of Research campus ("Area della Ricerca del CNR") in Pisa, Italy, and will be co-organized by the Institute for the Science and Technologies of Information of the Italian National Council of Research (ISTI-CNR), Pisa, and the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa.
SPIRE 2011 will devote a full day to workshops, which will take place on Friday, October 21, 2011 (the day right after the main conference) at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa. We invite proposals for workshops intended to provide a forum for the discussion of a specific topic within the field of String Processing and Information Retrieval among an international group of researchers. Typical topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* String Processing: Dictionary algorithms, Text searching, Pattern matching, Text and sequence compression, Succinct and compressed indexing, Automata-based string processing;
* Biological Sequence Processing: Analysis of DNA and RNA sequencing data, Molecular sequence processing, Recognition of genes and regulatory elements, Comparative genomics and population genetics;
* Information Retrieval: Information retrieval models, Indexing, Ranking and filtering, Interface design for IR, Evaluation issues in IR, Text analysis, Text mining, Text classification and clustering, Information extraction, Language models and topic models for search related-tasks, Efficient implementation of IR systems, Algorithms and data structures for IR;
* Search-related tasks: Cross-lingual information retrieval, Multimedia / multi-modal information retrieval, Recommendation and collaborative filtering, Semi-structured data retrieval, Blog retrieval.
Each workshop should have at least 6 paper presentations and preferably no more than 10-12. Workshops are intended to be genuine interactive events and not mini-conferences. We welcome workshops with a creative structure and organization, that may thus attract various types of contributions and ensure rich interaction.
Workshop organizers will be responsible for forming a program committee, publicizing the workshop, preparing a call for papers, having submissions reviewed, and selecting the papers to be presented at the workshop. ALL the organizers of an accepted workshop must commit to be present at the workshop. Workshops will also be advertised through the SPIRE 2011 website and mailing list. A workshop proposal should include the following information:
* Title of the workshop;
* Name, affiliation, and e-mail address of the proposer(s);
* A brief CV of the proposer(s), explaining their qualifications;
* Names of at least three PC members for the workshops;
* A description of the topic of the workshop (not exceeding 100 words) plus a short description on how the workshop will be advertised so as to ensure a sufficiently wide range of submissions and participants;
* The expected number of participants;
* A description of how the workshop will contribute to the field of String Processing and/or Information Retrieval.
All proposals will be reviewed by the SPIRE 2011 Workshops Committee. Please submit your workshop proposal to the SPIRE 2011 Workshops Chair Nadia Pisanti (University of Pisa).
Important dates:
* Submission of workshop proposals: March 8, 2011
* Notifications of workshop acceptance / rejection: April 1, 2011
* SPIRE 2011 Workshops: October 21, 2011
Nadia Pisanti
SPIRE 2011 Workshop Chair
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