Topics
Research papers should be on one or more of the following topics, with an emphasis on application to the Intellectual Property (Patent) domain:
- Semantic Annotation of Patents
- Patent Claim Analysis
- Ontology Engineering
- Corpus Analysis
- Patent Categorization
- Clustering and Visualization
- Patent Image Search
- Bibliographic Search, Network Analysis
- Machine Translation
- Cross-lingual Information Retrieval
- Digital Libraries for Patent Literature
- Case Studies
- Challenges in Patent Search
- Information Need of the Patent Searcher

