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Overview
For the 3rd time, the Information Retrieval Facility (IRF) organises a symposium with international experts from the Information Retrieval and Intellectual Property domains. The IRF Symposium is a forum to discuss the specific challenges of patent searching and analysis and exchange ideas on potential solutions, with the objective of making the latest IR technologies available to the industry.
The 3rd IRF Symposium is placed under the motto “Benchmarking Relevance” and will especially focus on methodology and evaluation in patent searching and retrieval, introducing a scientific approach in the evaluation of the underlying technologies behind the search engines and the results produced. The first findings of this systematic evaluation will be presented.
Objectives
- Foster the dialogue between Science and Industry
- Expose the specific challenges of patent information retrieval
- Present results from research projects bringing potential solutions
- Align research activities with the real needs of end-users
- Initiate new research projects in the field of patent information retrieval
- Contribute to the development of more efficient technologies for professional information retrieval
Target audience
- Intellectual Property specialists:
- Head of IP departments, patent searchers, industrial researchers and analysts, information professionals
- Consulting & professional service firms, patent attorneys
- Governmental and non-governmental organisations, e.g. patent offices
- Researchers working actively in the fields of:
- Information retrieval
- Semantic web technologies
- Natural Language Processing
- Large-scale or distributed computing
