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IRF Symposium 2008 - Videos and Presentations
Day 1 - Wednesday 5th November 2008
"IP for IR" Tutorial
- George Shreck
Product Manager, Landon IP
Biography
IP for IR Tutorial A - Kristian Luoto
Senior IPR Manager, Nokia Siemens Networks
Biography
IP for IR Tutorial B
"IR for IP" Tutorial
- Thomas Roelleke
Lecturer, Computer Science, Queen Mary University, London
Biography - Erik Graf
Research Student, Department of Computing, University of Glasgow
Biography
Day 2 - Thursday 6th November 2008
Opening Sessions
- Ludovit Garzik
Managing Director of the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development
Watch the video - John Tait
Chief Scientific Officer, IRF
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Session 1 - Multilinguality - Asian and Cyrillic Languages
- Sandra Bailly
Senior Information Scientist, Procter & Gamble
Biography
Challenges of the Asian IP information for non native speakers
Watch the video - Jian-Yun Nie
Professor, University of Montreal
Biography
Possible solutions to identify IP Information in Asian languages
Watch the video - Q & A
Chair: Noriko Kando
Professor, National Institute of Informatics (NII)
Watch the video - Benjamin T'sou
Director, Language Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong
Biography
Terminological Difference and Content Convergence: Automobile Patents from Mainland China and Taiwan
Watch the video - Kamil Milushev
IP Coordinator, Tashkent Chemical Technological Institute
Biography
Patent Cyrillic information related to Russian language
No video available as Kamil Milushev could not attend the IRFS2008. - Jaques Savoy
Professor, Institut d´Informatique, University of Neuchatel
Biography
Searching across Different Languages
Watch the video - Q & A
Chair: Benjamin T'sou
Director, Language Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong
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Session 2 - Annotations and Ontologies in the Context of Patent Retrieval
- Pierre Buffet
Executive Vice President, Questel
Biography
How NLP techniques can and should help in structuring patent information
Watch the video - Eric Gaussier
Professor, LIG (Lab. d´Informatique de Grenoble), Universite Joseph Fourier
Biography
Annotations and Ontologies in the Context of Patent Retrieval
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Chair: Wolfgang Thielemann
Head of Information Retrieval and Analysis, Bayer Healthcare AG
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Session 3 - Matrixware Contribution: Alexandria and Leonardo
- Mike Baycroft
CEO, Fairview Research
Biography
Matrixware's Alexandria Project
Watch the video - Rick Vieira
VP Business Development, Matrixware
Biography
Leonardo by Matrixware
Watch the video - Q & A
Chair: Christoph Haxel
Global Head of Sales and Marketing, Matrixware
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Session 4 - Interfacing (Collaborative Assessment of Relevance)
- Keith Dilley
Director IP Processes & Tools Development, GE Corporate
Biography
Informatics & Analytics - The Team Approach
Watch the video - Hideo Joho
Research Assistant, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
Biography
Sharing relevant information by collaborative search
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Chair: Torsten Rambusch
Head Information Science, Roche Diagnostics GmbH
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Session 5 - Non-Text Retrieval
- Monika Hanelt
Information Services Manager, Agfa Graphics NV
Biography
Searching non-textual information – a severe challenge?
Watch the video - Stefanos Vrochidis
Electrical and Computer Engineer, Informatics and Telematics Institute
Biography
Patent Image Retrieval
Watch the video - Q & A
Chair: Gerard Ypma
Senior Patent Searcher, ASML Netherlands BV
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Day 3 - Friday 7th November 2008
Session 6 - Project Presentations
- Valentin Tablan
Research Fellow, University of Sheffield
Biography
Semantic Annotation for IP
Watch the video - Cornelis Koster
Professor, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Biography
Text Mining for Intellectual Property
Watch the video - Leif Azzopardi
Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
Biography
Mapping how easily documents can be found
Watch the video - Panel Q & A
Chair: John Tait
Chief Scientific Officer, IRF
Biography
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Session 7 - Tuning IR - IP Collaboration through Patent Search Evaluation Panel
- Noriko Kando
Professor, National Institute of Informatics (NII, Japan)
Biography
Evaluation of Patent Retrieval at NTCIR and its Implications for Better IP Services
Watch the video - Ellen Voorhees
Manager Retrieval Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Biography
The TREC Track Structure
Watch the video - Maristella Agosti
Professor, University of Padua
Biography
CLEF Evaluation
Watch the video - Q & A
Chair: John Tait
Chief Scientific Officer, IRF
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Wrap-up Sessions
- Mark Sanderson
Reader in Information Retrieval, University of Sheffield
Biography
Watch the video - Stephen Adams
Managing Director, Magister Ltd
Biography
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Closing Speech
Francisco Webber
Chairman of the Executive Board, IRF
CEO , Matrixware Information Services GmbH
Biography
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