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</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-weight: 400;">2024</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;"> —
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">31st International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">September 23-25, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(41, 43, 44); font-weight: 400;">The International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE) will be held on the Pacific Ocean beach in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco.
Puerto Vallarta is a world-class tourist destination, with warm, sunny weather year-round, and a strategic location for all SPRIE attendees. Puerto Vallarta’s International Airport provides easy access worldwide (more than 200 weekly direct flights from 85
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</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-weight: 400;">2024</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;"> 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):</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">String Processing: string pattern matching, text indexing, data structures
</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-weight: 400;">for</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;"> string
processing, text compression, compressed data structures, compressed string processing, text mining, 2D pattern matching, automata based string processing, combinatorics on words </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Information Retrieval: Web search. Retrieval models and ranking. Theoretical models and foundations of information
retrieval and access. Efficiency and scalability, e.g., efficient data structures
</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-weight: 400;">for</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;"> IR,
indexing, etc. Queries and query analysis. Content analysis </span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-weight: 400;">for</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;"> search.
Knowledge acquisition. Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing </span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-weight: 400;">for</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;"> search,
e.g., Core ML, Question answering, Conversational systems, Explicit semantics. Knowledge representation and reasoning. User-centric aspects of IR including user interfaces, behavior modeling, privacy, and interactive systems. Evaluation. Fairness, accountability,
transparency. Domain-specific applications, e.g., local and mobile search, social search, multimedia search, health, digital libraries </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Computational Biology: algorithms for DNA sequencing, assembly, alignments, read error correction, metagenomics,
transcriptomics, gene and regulatory element recognition, motif finding, pangenomics, variants discovery, phylogenetics, genome rearrangements </span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-weight: 400;">2024</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;"> invites
submissions in two categories:</span></p>
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Up to 12 pages, excluding references and optional appendices.</span></p>
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Up to 6 pages, excluding references and optional appendices.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair.
</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">The link will be published on the conference webpage soon.</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">
</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">As in past editions, the proceedings of
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be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The use of LNCS templates is mandatory. Suitable templates are available at the Springer Website and on Overleaf. 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 submissions to other conferences with published proceedings is not permitted. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;"> Paper deadline: June 3,
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</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Sept. 23-25,
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;"> Workshop on Compression, Text, and Algorithms (WCTA): Sept. 26</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;"> Edleno Silva de Moura, Federal University of Amazonas and Jusbrasil, Brazil</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;"> Zsuzsanna Lipták, University of Verona, Italy</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Ricardo Baeza-Yates,
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</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Northeastern University, USA</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(41, 43, 44); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Karina Mariela Figueroa Mora,
</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Universidad Michoacana, Mexico<br>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Diego Arroyuelo, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María and Millennium Institute for Foundational Research on Data,
Chile</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400;">Nivio Ziviani, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil </span></p>
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