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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Nivio Ziviani Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Eds.)

String Processing and Information Retrieval 14th International Symposium, SPIRE 2007 Santiago, Chile, October 29-31, 2007 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Nivio Ziviani Federal University of Minas Gerais Department of Computer Science Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, 31270-010 Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil E-mail: [email protected] Ricardo Baeza-Yates Yahoo! Research Latin America Blanco Encalada 2120, Santiago 6511224, Chile E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007937296 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.3, H.2.8, I.2, E.1, E.5, F.2.2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 1 – Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

This volume contains the papers presented at the 14th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), held in Santiago, Chile, on October 29–31, 2007. SPIRE 2007 was organized in tandem with the 5th Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB), with both conferences sharing a common day on Web Retrieval. The papers in this volume were selected from 77 papers submitted from 25 different countries in response to the Call for Papers. Due to the high quality of the submissions, a total of 27 papers were acc