[DMANET] CFP - SPIRE 2013

20th Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval

(SPIRE 2013)


Jerusalem, Israel

October 7--9, 2013

http://websrv.cs.biu.ac.il/spire2013


SPIRE 2013 is the 20th edition of the International Symposium on
String Processing and Information Retrieval. It will will take place
in the Dan Panorama Hotel in Jerusalem, Israel and will be organized
by the Department of Computer Science of the University of Bar-Ilan.

SPIRE 2013 will feature invited talks by Ido Dagan (Bar-Ilan U.),
Roberto Grossi (Pisa U.), Robert Krauthgamer (Weizmann Institute), and
Yossi Matias (Google R&D).

SPIRE 2013 will also feature the WCTA workshop on October 10th.

SPIRE 2013 will have a best paper award and a best student paper award.

The scope of the SPIRE series of symposia includes not only
fundamental algorithms in string processing and information retrieval,
but also SP and IR techniques as applied to areas such as
computational biology, DNA sequencing, and Web mining. Given its
interdisciplinary nature, SPIRE offers a unique opportunity for
researchers from these different areas to meet and network.


Typical topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* String Processing: dictionary algorithms, text searching, pattern
matching, text indexing, text data structures, text and sequence
compression, text mining, natural language processing, and automata
based string processing.


* Information Retrieval (IR): retrieval models, indexing, evaluation,
algorithms and data structures for IR, efficient implementation of IR
systems, interface design, text classification and clustering, text
analysis and mining, collaborative and content-based filtering, topic
modeling for IR, search tasks (Web search, enterprise search, desktop
search, legal search, cross-lingual retrieval, federated search,
(micro) blog search, XML retrieval, multimedia retrieval), digital
libraries.

* 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.



SPIRE 2013 welcomes either long papers (12 pages) or short papers
(6-pages). Submissions must be _anonymous_ and formatted using the
Springer LNCS style. At least three reviewers will evaluate each paper
based on its originality, quality, methodological robustness, and
significance of theoretical and/or practical contribution. Papers must
be in English, must be unpublished, and must not be under submission
at another conference or journal for the entire duration of the SPIRE
2013 reviewing process. By submitting a paper, its authors commit to
having the paper presented at the conference by at least one of them;
an accepted paper will not be published in the proceedings, and will
thus be removed from the program, if none of its authors have
registered for the conference by the time (July 25, 2013) the
camera-ready copy of the paper is due.


All papers will be refereed according to the usual scientific
standards. Accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings published by
Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series, which
will be distributed to all delegates at the symposium. Revised and
extended versions of selected SPIRE 2013 papers will appear in a
Special Issue of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms devoted to SPIRE
2013.


SPIRE 2013 Program Chairs

Oren Kurland, Technion, Israel
Moshe Lewenstein, U. of Bar-Ilan, Israel
Ely Porat, U. of Bar-Ilan, Israel


SPIRE 2013 Workshops Chair

Oren Weimann, U. of Haifa, Israel
Philip Bille, Technical U. of Denmark


SPIRE 2013 General Chair

Amihood Amir, U. of Bar-Ilan, Israel


SPIRE 2013 Program Committee

- see http://websrv.cs.biu.ac.il/spire2013


Important Dates

May 2: Deadline for paper submission (Anywhere on Earth)
June 25: Notification to authors
July 25: Camera-ready version due
October 7-9: Conference

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Ely Porat
Bar-Ilan University
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