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<b>32nd International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval</b></div>
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<b>September 08-11, London, UK</b><br></div>
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The International Symposium on String Processing and Information 
Retrieval (SPIRE 2025) will be held at City University of London, in London,
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<a href="https://sites.google.com/view/spire-2025/home" id="m_-7588179835503064946LPlnk359513" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/<span class="gmail-il">spire</span>-2025/home</a></div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">SCOPE</span></div>
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SPIRE 2025 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):</div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">String Processing</span>:  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, combinatorics on words.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">Computational Biology</span>: algorithms 
for DNA sequencing, assembly, alignments, read error correction, 
metagenomics, transcriptomics, gene and regulatory element recognition, 
motif finding, pangenomics, variants discovery,
 phylogenetics, genome rearrangements.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">Information Retrieval</span>: Retrieval 
models and ranking. Theoretical models and foundations of IR. Efficiency
 and scalability topics in IR. Knowledge acquisition in IR. Machine 
Learning and Natural Language Processing for
 IR. Knowledge representation and reasoning for IR. User-centric aspects
 of IR. IR Evaluation. Fairness, accountability, transparency in IR. 
Domain-specific IR applications.  Web search.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">SUBMISSIONS</span></div>
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SPIRE 2025 invites submissions in two categories:</div>
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Long papers: Up to 12 pages, excluding references and optional appendices.</div>
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Short papers: Up to 6 pages, excluding references and optional appendices.</div>
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Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair via the following link: </div>
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<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spire2025" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spire2025</a></div>
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As in past editions, the proceedings of SPIRE 2025 will 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
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etc.: use the LNCS style file as given. Simultaneous submissions to 
other conferences with published proceedings is not permitted. </div>
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At least one author per accepted paper is expected to register for the 
conference and present the paper. The conference will be in-person, with
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<span style="font-weight:700">IMPORTANT DATES</span></div>
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May 29, 2025 AoE (abstract deadline)</div></li><li style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);list-style-type:disc">June 5, 2025 AoE (firm deadline)<br></li></ul>
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Notifications: July 17, 2025  </div>
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SPIRE: September 08 to 10, 2025</div>
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Workshop on Compression, Text, and Algorithms (WCTA): September 11, 2025</div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">GENERAL CHAIRS</span></div>
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<span class="gmail-il">Golnaz</span> Badkobeh, City St George’s, University of London, UK</div>
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Ricardo Baeza-Yates, EAI, Northeastern University & University of Chile</div>
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<span style="font-weight:700">PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS</span></div>
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<span class="gmail-il">Golnaz</span> Badkobeh, City St George’s, University of London, UK</div>
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Jakub Radoszewski, University of Warsaw, Poland</div>
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Nicola Tonellotto, University of Pisa, Italy</div></div>