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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>
SPIRE 2006 - String Processing and Information Retrieval<br>
11-13 October 2006, Glasgow, Scotland<br>
(<a href="http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/spire06/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/spire06/</a>)<br><br>
Submission date: 14 April, 2006<br><br>
SPIRE 2006 is the 13th Symposium on String Processing and<br>
Information Retrieval. The first four editions focused primarily<br>
on string processing and South America, and were called WSP<br>
(South American Workshop on String Processing). Starting in 1998,<br>
the focus of the workshop was broadened to include the area of<br>
information retrieval due to its increasing relevance and its<br>
inter-relationship with the area of string processing. In<br>
addition, since 2000, the conference venue has been in Europe in<br>
even years.<br><br>
The symposium will be organised by the University of Strathclyde,<br>
in Glasgow and chaired by Prof. Fabio Crestani. Glasgow is<br>
Scotland's largest city and is surrounded by some of the most<br>
breathtaking scenery in Western Europe, made famous down the years<br>
in verse and song. Today, the city has emerged as the cultural,<br>
commercial and convention capital of Scotland. The finest specimen<br>
of Victorian architecture in Europe according to the late poet<br>
laureate Sir John Betjeman, the city made ships and gigantic<br>
locomotives and powerful machines. But most of all, it made<br>
friends. The world has been meeting in Glasgow for over a hundred<br>
years. In 1888 eleven million visitors attended the International<br>
Exhibition of Industry, Science and Art. Nine million visitors<br>
came to the Glasgow International Exhibition of 1901 and the<br>
Empire Exhibition of 1938 attracted over thirteen million<br>
visitors. The tradition has continued with the city hosting the<br>
National Garden Festival in 1988, the Cultural Capital of Europe<br>
in 1990, the UK City of Architecture and Design 1999 and was<br>
European Capital of Sport in 2003.<br><br>
TOPICS:<br><br>
SPIRE 2006 covers research in all aspects of string processing,<br>
information retrieval, computational biology, pattern matching,<br>
semi-structured data, and related applications. Typical topics of<br>
interest include (but are not limited to):<br><br>
String Processing: dictionary algorithms, text searching, pattern<br>
matching, text compression, text mining, natural language<br>
processing, and automata based string processing.<br><br>
Information Retrieval (IR): IR modelling, indexing, ranking and<br>
filtering, interface design, visualisation, cross-lingual IR<br>
systems, multimedia IR, digital libraries, collaborative<br>
retrieval, and Web related applications.<br><br>
Interaction of biology and computation: DNA sequencing and<br>
applications in molecular biology, evolution and phylogenetics,<br>
recognition of genes and regulatory elements, and sequence driven<br>
protein structure prediction.<br><br>
Information Retrieval languages and applications: XML, SGML,<br>
information retrieval from semistrutured data, text mining, and<br>
generation of structured data from text.<br><br>
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS:<br><br>
- Paolo Ferragina, Univ. of Pisa, Italy<br>
- Mark Sanderson, Univ. of Sheffield, UK<br><br>
CONFERENCE CHAIR:<br><br>
- Fabio Crestani, Univ. of Strathclyde, UK<br><br>
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:<br><br>
Details about submission instructions will appear soon on the<br>
symposium web site on:
<a href="http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/external/spire06/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/external/spire06/</a>.<br>
The proceedings will be published by Springer- Verlag in the LNCS<br>
series (pending final approval).<br><br>
IMPORTANT DATES:<br><br>
Paper submission: 14 April, 2006<br>
Authors notification: 2 June, 2006<br>
Camera ready: 23 June, 2006<br><br>
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NAACL/HLT short paper deadline March 3,
<a href="http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/hlt-naacl06/" eudora="autourl">
http://nlp.cs.nyu.edu/hlt-naacl06/<br>
</a>EPSRC CASE studentship available
<a href="http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/case.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/case.htm<br><br>
</a>LREC workshop: Language Resources for Content-Based Image
Retrieval<br>
<a href="http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006/IMG/pdf/LRECworkshopOntoImage.htm" eudora="autourl">
http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006/IMG/pdf/LRECworkshopOntoImage.htm<br>
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Mark Sanderson, Room
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Tel: +44 (0) 114 22 22648<br>
Department of Information Studies Fax: +44
(0) 114 27 80300<br>
University of Sheffield, Regent Court,
<a href="mailto:m.sanderson@shef.ac.uk" eudora="autourl">
mailto:m.sanderson@shef.ac.uk<br>
</a>Portobello St, Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK
<a href="http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/" eudora="autourl">
http://dis.shef.ac.uk/mark/<br>
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