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PaIR 2011
4th International Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval (PaIR'11)
CIKM 2011, Glasgow UK, October 24th
http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/pair2011/
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NEW: Submission site opened at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pair11
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The focus of this year’s workshop is on more interaction and more
discussion between participants, focused around the ideas of the
accepted papers.
*Participants are invited to submit technical as well as position
papers between 4 and 6 pages long.*
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ORGANIZERS
Mihai Lupu, Information Retrieval Facility, Vienna
Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology
Allan Hanbury, Vienna University of Technology
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IMPORTANT DATES
Individual Workshop Papers: July 6, 2011
Notification of Acceptance: July 29, 2011
Camera Ready: August 12, 2011 (hard deadline for publication)
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WORKSHOP OBJECTIVE
The objective of the workshop (and of the PaIR workshop series since
2008 in general) is to provide a forum for Information Retrieval and
Knowledge Management scientists as well as Patent Retrieval experts
from industry to study the next generation of patent search tools.
We encourage IP professionals to present their special information
needs and IR&KM researchers to present relevant technical ideas, for
example for high recall search in prior art searching.
We will also promote exchange of ideas on measuring the progress of
system performance for retrieval tasks in the intellectual property
domain.
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PROPOSED PROGRAMME
The workshop will begin with two invited speakers, at least one of
which will be from the industry. Then, accepted papers will be invited
to do short presentations. Discussions will take place in the second
part of the workshop around posters of the accepted papers. The
workshop will end with a separation into working groups, based on the
discussions which have taken place during the morning and early
afternoon. Potential workgroup discussion topics are:
• Industry – Academia: collaboration or competition?
• Patentese : experiences and ideas on understanding and processing it
• Image recognition for patents
• Data annotation, text mining and their use for a more semantic
patent retrieval
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THEME AND TOPICS
This workshop will solicit two types of papers: research papers and
industry papers. All papers should apply to patent IR or a related
area in the Intellectual Property domain.
Suggested topics for research papers include, but are not limited to:
• Machine Translation and Cross-lingual information retrieval
• Patent Classification
• Ontology-based Retrieval
• Latent Semantic Analysis
• Information retrieval evaluation
• Evaluation frameworks
• Test collections
• Large-scale information retrieval experiments
• Parallel and distributed information retrieval
• Ranking strategies
• Query validation and query quality analysis
• Query expansion
• Interactive retrieval
• Session-based information retrieval
• User modelling
• Handling of noisy data (OCR/spelling/typing errors)
• XML retrieval
Industry papers shall present research challenges. Suggested topics
include, but are not limited to:
• Patent search workflow
• Patent search strategies
• Information needs of the patent researcher
• Shortcomings of current patent search tools
• Case studies
• Challenges in patent search
• Patent life cycle
• Quality of patent data
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CONTACT
Mihai Lupu
[email protected]
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Mihai Lupu
Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Information Retrieval Facility
[email protected]
www.ir-facility.org
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