10. SPIRE 2003: Manaus, Brazil
Mario A. Nascimento, Edleno Silva de Moura, Arlindo L. Oliveira (Eds.): String Processing and Information Retrieval, 10th International Symposium, SPIRE 2003, Manaus, Brazil, October 8-10, 2003, Proceedings. Springer 2003 Lecture Notes in Computer Science ISBN 3-540-20177-7
Invited Papers
Krishna Bharat: Patterns on the Web. 1-15
João Meidanis: Current Challenges in Bioinformatics. 16-27
Web Algorithms
Halil Ali, Hugh E. Williams: What's Changed? Measuring Document Change in Web Crawling for Search Engines. 28-42
Marco Cristo, Pável Calado, Edleno Silva de Moura, Nivio Ziviani, Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto: Link Information as a Similarity Measure in Web Classification. 43-55
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Felipe Saint-Jean: A Three Level Search Engine Index Based in Query Log Distribution. 56-65
Bit-Parallel Algorithms
Kimmo Fredriksson: Row-wise Tiling for the Myers' Bit-Parallel Approximate String Matching Algorithm. 66-79
Heikki Hyyrö: Bit-Parallel Approximate String Matching Algorithms with Transposition. 95-107
Compression
Kimmo Fredriksson, Jorma Tarhio: Processing of Huffman Compressed Texts with a Super-Alphabet. 108-121
Nieves R. Brisaboa, Antonio Fariña, Gonzalo Navarro, María F. Esteller: (S, C)-Dense Coding: An Optimized Compression Code for Natural Language Text Databases. 122-136
Shunsuke Inenaga, Takashi Funamoto, Masayuki Takeda, Ayumi Shinohara: Linear-Time Off-Line Text Compression by Longest-First Substitution. 137-152
Joaquín Adiego, Gonzalo Navarro, Pablo de la Fuente: SCM: Structural Contexts Model for Improving Compression in Semistructured Text Databases. 153-167
Categorization and Ranking
Fabio Crestani, Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fernández-Luna, Juan F. Huete: Ranking Structured Documents Using Utility Theory in the Bayesian Network Retrieval Model. 168-182
Ana Cardoso-Cachopo, Arlindo L. Oliveira: An Empirical Comparison of Text Categorization Methods. 183-196
Rodrigo de Freitas Vale, Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Luciano R. S. de Lima, Alberto H. F. Laender, Hermes R. Freitas-Junior: Improving Text Retrieval in Medical Collections Through Automatic Categorization. 197-210
Music Retrieval
Maxime Crochemore, Costas S. Iliopoulos, Gonzalo Navarro, Yoan J. Pinzon: A Bit-Parallel Suffix Automation Approach for (delta, gamma)-Matching in Music Retrieval. 211-223
Kjell Lemström, Gonzalo Navarro: Flexible and Efficient Bit-Parallel Techniques for Transposition Invariant Approximate Matching in Music Retrieval. 224-237
Multilingual Information Retrieval
Hayri Sever, Yiltan Bitirim: FindStem: Analysis and Evaluation of a Turkish Stemming Algorithm. 238-251
Heikki Keskustalo, Ari Pirkola, Kari Visala, Erkka Leppänen, Kalervo Järvelin: Non-adjacent Digrams Improve Matching of Cross-Lingual Spelling Variants. 252-265
Gilberto Silva, Claudia Oliveira: The Implementation and Evaluation of a Lexicon-Based Stemmer. 266-276
Hatem Haddad: French Noun Phrase Indexing and Mining for an Information Retrieval System. 277-286
Subsequences and Distributed Algorithms
Lasse Bergroth, Harri Hakonen, Juri Väisänen: New Refinement Techniques for Longest Common Subsequence Algorithms. 287-303

Algorithms on Strings and Trees
S. Alireza Aghili, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi: BFT: Bit Filtration Technique for Approximate String Join in Biological Databases. 326-340
Alberto J. Cañas, Alejandro Valerio, Juan Lalinde-Pulido, Marco M. Carvalho, Marco Arguedas: Using WordNet for Word Sense Disambiguation to Support Concept Map Construction. 350-359
Diego Arroyuelo, Francisca Muñoz, Gonzalo Navarro, Nora Reyes: Memory-Adaptive Dynamic Spatial Approximation Trees. 360-368



