String Processing And Information Retrieval

Thisvolumecontainsthe paperspresentedatthe 17thInternationalSymposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2010), held October 11-13, 2010 in Los Cabos, Mexico. The annual SPIRE conference provides researchers within ?elds related to string processing and/or information retrieval a possibility to present their or- inal contributions and to meet and talk with other researchers with similar - terests. The call for papers invited submissions related to string processing (d- tionary algorithms; text searching; pattern matching; text and sequence c- pression; automata-based string processing), information retrieval (information retrieval models; indexing; ranking and ?ltering; querying and interface design), natural language processing (text analysis; text mining; machine learning; - formation extraction; language models; knowledge representation), searchapp- cations and usage (cross-lingual information access systems; multimedia inf- mation access; digital libraries; collaborative retrieval and Web-related appli- tions; semi-structured data retrieval; evaluation), and interaction of biology and computation (DNA sequencing and applications in molecular biology; evolution andphylogenetics;recognitionofgenesandregulatoryelements;sequencedriven protein structure prediction). The papers presented at the symposium were selected from 109 submissions written by authors from 30 di'erent countries. Each submission was reviewed by at least three reviewers, with a maximum of ?ve reviews for particularly challengingpapers. The ProgramCommittee accepted 39 papers(corresponding to ?35% acceptance rate): 26 long papers and 13 short papers. In addition to these presentations, SPIRE 2010 also featured invited talks by Gonzalo Navarro (Universidad de Chile) and Mark Najork (Microsoft Research, USA).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2018, held in Lima, Peru, in October 2018. The 22 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. They focus on fundamental studies on string processing and information retrieval, as well as on computational biology.

This volumecontainsthe paperspresented atthe 15thString Processingand - formation Retrieval Symposium (SPIRE), held in Melbourne, Australia, during November 10–12, 2008. The papers presented at the symposium were selected from 54 papers s- mitted in response to the Call For Papers. Each submission was reviewed by a minimum of two, and usually three, Program Committee members, who are expertsdrawnfromaroundthe globe. Thecommittee accepted25papers (46%), with the successful authors also covering a broad rangeof continents. The paper “An E?cient Linear Space Algorithm for Consecutive Su?x Alignment Under Edit Distance” by Heikki Hyyr¨ o was selected for the Best Paper Award, while Dina Sokol was awarded the Best Reviewer Award for excellent contributions to the reviewing process. The program also included two invited talks: David Hawking, chief scientist at the Internet and enterprise search company Funn- back Pty. Ltd. based in Australia; and Gad Landau, from the Department of Computer Science at Haifa University, Israel. SPIRE has its origins in the South American Workshop on String Proce- ing which was ?rst held in 1993. Starting in 1998, the focus of the symposium was broadened to include the area of information retrieval due to the c- mon emphasis on information processing. The ?rst 14 meetings were held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (1993); Valparaiso, Chile (1995); Recife, Brazil (1996); Valparaiso, Chile (1997); Santa Cruz, Bolivia (1998); Cancun, Mexico (1999); A Corun ˜a,Spain(2000);LagunaSanRafael,Chile(2001);Lisbon,Portugal(2002); Manaus, Brazil (2003); Padova, Italy (2004); Buenos Aires, Argentina (2005); Glasgow, UK (2006); and Santiago, Chile (2007).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2020, held in Orlando, FL, USA, in October 2020. The 17 full papers and 4 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. They cover topics such as: data structures; algorithms; information retrieval; compression; combinatorics on words; and computational biology.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2015, held in London, UK, in September 2015. The 28 full and 6 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. The papers cover research in all aspects of string processing, information retrieval, computational biology, pattern matching, semi-structured data, and related applications.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2014, held in Ouro Preto, Brazil, in October 2014. The 20 full and 6 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers focus not only on fundamental algorithms in string processing and information retrieval, but address also application areas such as computational biology, Web mining and recommender systems. They are organized in topical sections on compression, indexing, genome and related topics, sequences and strings, search, as well as on mining and recommending.