PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
18th International Symposium on
String Processing and Information Retrieval
(SPIRE 2011)
October 17-21, 2011 -- Pisa, Italy
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Sponsored by
NoemaLife
Microsoft Research
Yahoo! Research
Associazione Italiana di Informatica e Calcolo Automatico (AICA)
The ASSETS ICT PSP Project
Dipartimento ICT - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
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You are cordially invited to participate in SPIRE 2011, the 18th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval. 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 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.
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Detailed registration information can be found at
http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/?page_id=244
## Reminder: Early bird registration expires August 15, 2011 ##
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% PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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The SPIRE 2011 program features
* the SPIRE 2011 Tutorials day (Oct 17)
* the SPIRE 2011 Main Conference (Oct 18-20)
* the SPIRE 2011 Workshops day (Oct 21)
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The SPIRE 2011 main conference features two invited talks:
* Erik Demaine (MIT), "Constructing Strings at the Nano Scale via Staged
Self-Assembly"
* Abdur Chowdhury (Twitter), (Title to be Announced)
plus 30 long papers and 10 short papers. See http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/?page_id=254 for the list of accepted papers.
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The SPIRE 2011 Tutorials day (Oct 17 -- see http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/?page_id=257 for details) features the following half-day tutorials:
- Introduction to Web Retrieval, by Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Yahoo!
Research)
- Introduction to Sequence Learning, by Corinna Cortes (Google) &
Mehryar Mohri (New York University)
- Computational Geography, by Vanessa Murdock (Yahoo!Research) & Gary
Gale (Nokia)
- Space-Efficient Data Structures, by Francisco Claude (University of
Waterloo) & Gonzalo Navarro (University of Chile)
## Tutorial attendance is free for everyone registered for the SPIRE 2011 main conference. ##
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The SPIRE 2011 Workshops day (Oct 21 -- see http://spire2011.isti.cnr.it/?page_id=259 for details ) features two full-day workshops:
- Workshop on the Algorithmic Analysis of Biological Data (WAABD 2011), organized by Concettina Guerra (University of Padova) et al.
- Workshop On Compression, Text, And Algorithms (WCTA 2011), organized by Gonzalo Navarro (University of Chile)
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Omar Alonso, Microsoft, US
Gianni Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Amihood Amir, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, UK
Rolf Backofen, University of Freiburg, Germany
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Alvaro Barreiro, University of A Coruña, Spain
Philip Bille, Technical University, Denmark
Paolo Boldi, University of Milano, Italy
Danny Breslauer, University of Haifa, Israel
Edgar Chávez, University of Michoacana, Mexico
Charles Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada
Maxime Crochemore, King’s College London, UK
Brian Davison, Lehigh University, UK
Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montréal, Canada
Paolo Ferragina, University of Pisa, Italy
Frantisek Franek, McMaster University, Canada
Leszek A. Gąsieniec, University of Liverpool, UK
Dora Giammarresi, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Nazli Goharian, Georgetown University, USA
Gregory Grefenstette, Exalead, France
Concettina Guerra, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Antonio Gullì, Microsoft, UK
Jan Holub, Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Heikki Hyyrö, University of Tampere, Finland
Lucian Ilie, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Costas S. Iliopoulos, King’s College London, UK
Shunsuke Inenaga, Kyushu University, Japan
Jaap Kamps, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Takuya Kida, Hokkaido University, Japan
Marcin Kubica, University of Warsaw, Poland
Gregory Kucherov, University of Paris-Est MLV, France
Mounia Lalmas, Yahoo! Research, Spain
Moshe Lewenstein, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia
Laurent Mouchard, University of Rouen, France
Gonzalo Navarro, University of Chile, Chile
Wolfgang Nejdl, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
Iadh Ounis, University of Glasgow, UK
Kunsoo Park, Seoul National University, Korea
Laxmi Parida, IBM Research, US
Marco Pellegrini, IIT-CNR, Italy
Pierre Peterlongo, INRIA/Irisa, France
Andrea Pietracaprina, University of Padua, Italy
Ely Porat, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Venkatesh Raman, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India
Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Google Research, US
Horacio Rodríguez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Marie-France Sagot, INRIA, France
S. Cenk Sahinalp, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Leena Salmela, University of Helsinki, Finland
Jeanette Schmidt, Stanford University, USA
Jialie Shen, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Steven Skiena, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA
Dina Sokol, City University of New York, USA
Jens Stoye, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Torsten Suel, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, USA
Fabio Vandin, Brown University, USA
Stéphane Vialette, University of Paris-Est MLV, France
Alain Viari, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France
Jeffrey S. Vitter, University of Kansas, USA
Oren Weimann, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Le Zhao, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Nivio Ziviani, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brasil
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Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT
(General Chair)
Roberto Grossi, Università di Pisa, IT
Fabrizio Silvestri, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT
(Program Co-Chairs)
Andrea Esuli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, IT
(Tutorials Chair)
Nadia Pisanti, Università di Pisa, IT
(Workshops Chair)
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Address any further inquiry to:
Fabrizio Sebastiani
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Via Giuseppe Moruzzi, 1
56124 Pisa (ITALY)
Phone: +39.050.3152892
Fax: +39.050.3153464
E-mail: genchair.spire2011@isti.cnr.it
