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Retrieval<br>
September 08-11, London, UK<br>
Second call for papers<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>
The International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval<br>
(<span class="gmail-il">SPIRE</span> <span class="gmail-il">2025</span>) will be held at City University of London, in London, UK.<br>
Website: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/spire-2025/home" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/<span class="gmail-il">spire</span>-<span class="gmail-il">2025</span>/home</a><br><div><br>
</div><div># SCOPE</div>
<br>
<span class="gmail-il">SPIRE</span> <span class="gmail-il">2025</span> covers research in all aspects of string processing, information<br>
retrieval, computational biology, and related applications. Typical topics<br>
of interest include (but are not limited to):<br>
<br>
- String Processing: string pattern matching, text indexing, data<br>
structures for string processing, text compression, compressed data<br>
structures, compressed string processing, text mining, 2D pattern matching,<br>
automata based string processing, combinatorics on words.<br>
- Computational Biology: algorithms for DNA sequencing, assembly,<br>
alignments, read error correction, metagenomics, transcriptomics, gene and<br>
regulatory element recognition, motif finding, pangenomics, variants<br>
discovery, phylogenetics, genome rearrangements.<br>
- Information Retrieval: Retrieval models and ranking. Theoretical<br>
models and foundations of IR. Efficiency and scalability topics in IR.<br>
Knowledge acquisition in IR. Machine Learning and Natural Language<br>
Processing for IR. Knowledge representation and reasoning for IR.<br>
User-centric aspects of IR. IR Evaluation. Fairness, accountability,<br>
transparency in IR. Domain-specific IR applications. Web search.<br>
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# SUBMISSIONS<br>
<br>
<span class="gmail-il">SPIRE</span> <span class="gmail-il">2025</span> invites submissions in two categories:<br>
<br>
- Long papers: Up to 12 pages, excluding references and optional<br>
appendices.<br>
- Short papers: Up to 6 pages, excluding references and optional<br>
appendices.<br>
<br>
Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair via the following<br>
link:<br>
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<a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spire2025" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spire2025</a><br>
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As in past editions, the proceedings of <span class="gmail-il">SPIRE</span> <span class="gmail-il">2025</span> will be published by<br>
Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The use of<br>
LNCS templates is mandatory. Suitable templates are available at the<br>
Springer Website and on Overleaf. Do not change the margin size or the<br>
font, do not make a separate title page, etc.: use the LNCS style file as<br>
given. Simultaneous submissions to other conferences with published<br>
proceedings is not permitted.<br>
At least one author per accepted paper is expected to register for the<br>
conference and present the paper. The conference will be in-person, with<br>
online presentations only in special cases (e.g., authors with travel<br><div>
difficulties).</div><div><br></div>
# IMPORTANT DATES<br>
<br>
Papers deadlines:<br>
<br>
- May 29, <span class="gmail-il">2025</span> AoE (abstract deadline)<br>
- June 5, <span class="gmail-il">2025</span> AoE (firm deadline)<br>
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Notification: July 17, <span class="gmail-il">2025</span><br>
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Events:<br>
<br>
- <span class="gmail-il">SPIRE</span>: September 08 to 10, <span class="gmail-il">2025</span><br>
- Workshop on Compression, Text, and Algorithms (WCTA): September 11,<br>
<span class="gmail-il">2025</span><br>
<br>
# GENERAL CHAIRS<br>
<br>
Golnaz Badkobeh, City St George’s, University of London, UK<br>
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, EAI, Northeastern University & University of Chile<br>
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# PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br>
<br>
Golnaz Badkobeh, City St George’s, University of London, UK (co-chair)<br>
Jakub Radoszewski, University of Warsaw, Poland (co-chair)<br><div>
Nicola Tonellotto, University of Pisa, Italy (co-chair)</div><div>Christina Boucher, University of Florida, USA<br>Laurent Bulteau, CNRS - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France<br>Panagiotis Charalampopoulos, Birkbeck University of London, UK<br>Jonas Ellert, ENS Paris, France<br>Johannes Fischer, TU Dortmund, Germany<br>Paweł Gawrychowski, University of Wrocław, Poland<br>Daniel Gibney, Georgia Tech, USA<br>Meng He, Dalhousie University, Canada<br>Stepan Holub, Charles University, Czech Republic<br>Wing-Kai Hon, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan<br>Dominik Kempa, Stony Brook University, USA<br>Tomasz Kociumaka, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany<br>Dominik Köppl, University of Yamanashi, Japan<br>Dmitry Kosolobov, Ural Federal University, Russia<br>Susana Ladra, University of A Coruña, Spain<br>Thierry Lecroq, Université de Rouen Normandie, France<br>Moshe Lewenstein, Bar Ilan University, Israel<br>Zsuzsanna Lipták, University of Verona, Italy<br>Felipe A. Louza, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil<br>Takuya Mieno, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan<br>Gonzalo Navarro, University of Chile<br>Giulio Ermanno Pibiri, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Italy<br>Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, Italy<br>Solon Pissis, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br>Nicola Prezza, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy<br>Simon J. Puglisi, University of Helsinki, Finland<br>Arseny Shur, Bar Ilan University, Israel<br>Blerina Sinaimeri, Università LUISS Guido Carli, Italy<br>Jouni Sirén, UCSC Genomics Institute, USA<br>Rossano Venturini, University of Pisa, Italy<br>Oren Weimann, University of Haifa, Israel</div><div><br></div><div>
# INVITED SPEAKERS</div><div><br></div><div>Hideo Bannai, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan</div><div>Camille Marchet, Université Lille, CNRS, France</div><div>Rajeev Raman, University of Leicester, UK</div></div></div></div>