SPIRE 2021: International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval Cité Scientifique Lille, France, October 4-6, 2021 |
Conference website | https://www.cristal.univ-lille.fr/spire2021 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spire2021 |
Abstract registration deadline | May 19, 2021 |
Submission deadline | May 26, 2021 |
SPIRE 2021 is the 28th edition of the annual Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval. SPIRE has its origins in the South American Workshop on String Processing, which was first held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 1993. Since 1998 the focus of the workshop has also included information retrieval, due to its increasing relevance to and inter-relationship with string processing.
Covid-19: We are carefully watching the situation with the Covid-19 pandemic. We aim to conduct a hybrid event, offering the possibility to attend the conference either in person or virtually. In the worst case, SPIRE 2021 will be held 100% online.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Long papers (up to 12 pages, excluding references and optional appendices)
- Short papers (up to 6 pages, excluding references and optional appendices)
This year, SPIRE'21 has a two-steps submission process:
- First submit the title, the names of the authors, the abstract and the keywords by May 19th, 2021.
- Then upload the full-paper in PDF by May 26th, 2021 (either long or short paper).
The reviewing process will be single-blind, namely each submission should be non-anonymous.
The proceedings will be published in the LNCS series of Springer-Verlag. The use of either LaTeX or Word LNCS templates is mandatory. Suitable templates are available at the Springer website. Do not change the margin size or the font, do not make a separate title page, etc... Use the LNCS style file as given.
Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not permitted.
List of Topics
SPIRE 2021 covers research in all aspects of string processing, information retrieval, computational biology, and related applications. Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- String Processing: string pattern matching, text indexing, data structures for string processing, text compression, compressed data structures, compressed string processing, text mining, 2D pattern matching, 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.
- Computational Biology: high-throughput DNA sequencing (assembly, read alignment, read error correction, metagenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics), evolution and phylogenetics, gene and regulatory element recognition, motif finding, protein structure prediction.
Venue
The conference will be held in Lille (France).
Contact
All questions about submissions and the conference in general should be emailed to spire2021@univ-lille.fr