<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-m_7704871744252352182gmail-docs-internal-guid-0722a59a-7fff-6037-38ec-04f3980a91b9"><font face="times new roman, serif"><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">SPIRE</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> 2020 -  </span></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap"><b>27th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval</b>, </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);white-space:pre-wrap">October 13-15, 2020, Orlando, USA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://www.cs.ucf.edu/spire2020/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.cs.ucf.edu/spire2020/</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract deadline: May 13th, 2020 (anywhere on Earth)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper deadline: May 20th, 2020 (anywhere on Earth)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notification: July 10th, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Camera-ready due: July 20th, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">Early bird registration: August 31th, 2020</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Workshop on Compression, Text and Algorithms (WCTA) will be held on October 16th.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**********************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LOCATION</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**********************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Orlando, the City Beautiful, is home to world-class attractions, dining, and entertainment. Most famously, Orlando is home to the popular Disney, Universal Studios, and SeaWorld theme parks. In addition, Orlando is located within driving distances from the beautiful Clear Water, Cocoa, and New Smyrna beaches. Other lesser-known but equally entertaining and unique attractions include GatorLand (with a zip line over live alligators!), the Orlando Slingshot, the Starflyer swing, the Orlando Eye, and the Holy Land Experience. With the beautiful weather of Central Florida during late fall, any outdoor activity, beach, theme park, or otherwise, should be comfortable and fun. Our conference venue will be the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C7_W3EtpGo" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Four Points by Sheraton</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> which is located on I-Drive, a hub of fine dining, whose restaurants include Tapa Toro Tapas Bar and Paella Pit, Tin Roof, and Yard House. Our venue is also within close traveling distance to a myriad of other great restaurants, the Orlando Fashion Outlets, and the Universal Studios theme park. </span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As a popular tourist destination, travel to and from Orlando should be easy with direct flights offered by most major airlines.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**********************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SCOPE</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**********************************************</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All aspects of string processing,  information retrieval, computational biology, and related applications are covered.  Typical topics of interest include (but are not limited to): </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">String Processing: </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Information Retrieval (IR): </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Computational Biology:</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> 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. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">********************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ka, Bar-Ilan University, Israel</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Tsvi Kopelowitz, Bar-Ilan University, Israel</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Dominik Köppl, Kyushu University / JSPS, Japan</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">M. Oguzhan Kulekci, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Susana Ladra, University of A Coruña, Spain</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Thierry Lecroq, University of Rouen, France</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Inbok Lee, Korea Aerospace University, South Korea</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Moshe Lewenstein, Bar Ilan University, Israel</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Zsuzsanna Lipták, University of Verona, Italy</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Veli Mäkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Giovanni Manzini, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Camille Marchet, CRIStAL, France</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Juan Mendivelso, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Laurent Mouchard, University of Rouen, France</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Gonzalo Navarro, University of Chile, Chile</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Yakov Nekrich, Michigan Technological University, USA</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Kunsoo Park, Seoul National University, South Korea</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, Italy</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Solon P. Pissis, CWI, Netherlands</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Nicola Prezza, LUISS Guido Carli, Italy</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Simon J. Puglisi, University of Helsinki, Finland</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Jakub Radoszewski, University of Warsaw, Poland</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Leena Salmela, University of Helsinki, Finland</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Srinivasa Rao Satti, Seoul National University, South Korea</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Marinella Sciortino, University of Palermo, Italy</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Rahul Shah, Louisiana State University, USA</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Jouni Sirén, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University, Germany</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Yasuo Tabei, RIKEN, Japan</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Sharma Thankachan, University of Central Florida, USA (Co-chair)</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Rossano Venturini, Università di Pisa, Italy</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Bojian Xu, Eastern Washington University, USA</font></span></div></div></div><div><div><div><span><font face="times new roman, serif">Binhai Zhu, Montana State University, USA</font></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">Organizing Committee:</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Daniel Gibney</span><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (University of Central Florida, USA)</span></div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:"times new roman",serif;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="text-align:left">Massimiliano Rossi (University of Verona, Italy)</div></span><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(32,33,36);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Sahar Hooshmand </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">(University of Central Florida, USA)</span></div></span><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Sumit Kumar Jha </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">(University of Central Florida, USA)</span></div></span><p></p><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">Steering Committee:</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">Alistair Moffat (University of Melbourne, Australia) </font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">Berthier Ribeiro-Neto (Google Inc. and Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">Gabriele Fici (Universita' di Palermo, Italy)</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">Gonzalo Navarro (University of Chile, Chile)</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">Marinella Sciortino (Universita' di Palermo, Italy)</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">Nieves R. Brisaboa (University of A Coruña, Spain)</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">Nivio Ziviani (Universidade Federal Minas Gerais, Brazil)</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">Ricardo Baeza-Yates (NTENT and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">Rossano Venturini (Universita' di Pisa, Italy)</font></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="times new roman, serif">Simon Puglisi (University of Helsinki, Finland)</font></spa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