SPIRE 2025: Call for Papers

The 32nd International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE 2025) will be held in London, UK, from September 08 - 11, 2025.

Scope

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):

• String Processing: 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.
• 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.
• Information Retrieval: 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.

Submissions

SPIRE 2025 invites submissions in two categories:

• Long papers: Up to 12 pages, excluding references and optional appendices.
• Short papers: Up to 6 pages, excluding references and optional appendices.

Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair via the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spire2025

Submission Guidelines

• 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 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.
• 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 online presentations only in special cases (e.g., authors with travel difficulties).

Important Dates

• Papers deadline:
  • May 29, 2025 AoE (abstract deadline)
  • June 5, 2025 AoE (firm deadline)
• Notifications: July 17, 2025
• Camera-ready due: TBC
• Early bird registration: TBC

Events

• SPIRE: September 08 to 10, 2025
• Workshop on Compression, Text, and Algorithms (WCTA): September 11, 2025

Invited Speakers

• Hideo Bannai, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
• Camille Marchet, CNRS, Lille, France
• Rajeev Raman, University of Leicester, UK

General Chairs

• Golnaz Badkobeh, City St George’s, University of London, UK
• Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain

Program Committee Chairs

• Golnaz Badkobeh, City St George’s, University of London, UK
• Jakub Radoszewski, University of Warsaw, Poland
• Nicola Tonellotto, University of Pisa, Italy