PaIR08

Program:

Welcome (13:00 - 13:15)

Keynote I (13:15 - 14:00)

- John Tait, IRF

Session 1 - Information Extraction (14:00 - 15:00)
(Chair: Michael Dittenbach)

- Milan Agatonovic, Niraj Aswani, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Thomas Heitz, Yaoyong Li, Ian Roberts, Valentin Tablan; Large-scale, Parallel Automatic Patent Annotation

- Aaron Chu, Shigeyuki Sakurai and Alfonso Cardenas; Automatic Detection of Treatment Relationships for Patent Retrieval

Session 2 - Patent Classification and IR Evaluation (15:00 - 15:30)
(Chair: Georg Sommer)

- Jianhan Zhu and John Tait;  A Proposal for Chemical Information Retrieval Evaluation

Coffee Break (15:30 - 16:00)

Session 2 (cont'd) (16:00 - 16:30)

- Andreas Pesenhofer, Sonja Edler, Helmut Berger and Michael Dittenbach; Towards a Patent Taxonomy Integration and Interaction Framework

Keynote II (16:30 - 17:15)

- Anthony Trippe, 3LP Advisors:
Patent Information Retrieval - What's at Stake Here

Session 4 - Patent Search Process (17:15 - 18:45)
(Chair: John Tait)

- Hidetsugu Nanba, Atsushi Fujii, Makoto Iwayama and Taiichi Hashimoto; The Patent Mining Task in the Seventh NTCIR Workshop
- Yuen-Hsien Tseng and Yi-Jen Wu; A Study of Search Tactics for Patentability Search – A Case Study on Patent Engineers
- Kristine Atkinson; Toward a More Rational Patent Search Paradigm

Poster Session

- Erik Graf,Leif Azzopardi; Towards Creating a Test Collection for European Patents
- Takashi Yukawa, Kotaro Hashimoto, Koji Mizumoto; A Fast Patent Classification Method Using the Chi-square Statistic and Its Improvement

Scope of the Workshop

Patent Information Retrieval specialists in the 21st century face many challenges. They must search very large numbers of documents in multiple languages, expressing complex technological concepts through sophisticated legal clauses. Despite a great deal of theoretical development in Information Retrieval techniques, advanced search tools for patent professionals are still in their infancy.
The objective of the workshop 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. The outcome of this workshop will be incorporated into a TREC track including patent search, which is planned for 2009.

Topics of Interest

We solicit two types of papers: research papers and industry papers. Suggested topics for research papers include, but are not limited to:
•    Information retrieval evaluation
•    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 modeling
•    Handling of noisy data (OCR/spelling/typing errors)
•    XML retrieval
•    Cross-lingual information retrieval

Industry papers shall present research challenges.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

•    Patent search workflow
•    Patent search strategies
•    Information need of the patent researcher
•    Shortcomings of current patent search tools
•    Case studies
•    Quality of patent data


Important Dates

•    Submission deadline for full papers: July 20, 2008
•    Notification of acceptance: August 10, 2008
•    Camera-ready: August 15, 2008
•    Workshop date: October 30, 2008

Organization

General Chair
•    Prof. John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility (Austria)
Workshop Organisers
•    Helmut Berger, Matrixware Information Services Gmbh (Austria)
•    Michael Dittenbach, Matrixware Information Services Gmbh (Austria)
•    Georg Sommer, Information Retrieval Facility (Austria)
 Programme Committee
•    Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, (UK)
•    Helmut Berger, Matrixware Information Services Gmbh (Austria)
•    Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
•    Yves Chiaramella, Joseph Fourier University (France)
•    Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts (USA)
•    Barrou Diallo, Information Retrieval Facility (Austria)
•    Michael Dittenbach, Matrixware Information Services Gmbh (Austria)
•    Gerhard Fischer, Syngenta (Switzerland)
•    Karl Fröschl, University of Vienna (Austria)
•    Gerben Gieling, Synthon (The Netherlands)
•    Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science Copenhagen (Denmark)
•    Dieter Merkl, Vienna University of Technolgy (Austria)
•    Andreas Pesenhofer, Matrixware Information Services Gmbh (Austria)
•    Daniel J. Phelps, DJP Information Consulting Services (USA)
•    Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technolgy (Austria)
•    Giovanna Roda, Matrixware Information Services Gmbh (Austria)
•    Michael Schwantner, FIZ Karlsruhe (Germany)
•    Georg Sommer, Information Retrieval Facility (Austria)
•    A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technolgy (Austria)
•    Jianhan Zhu, The Open University (UK)

Contact Information

•    General Chair: Prof. John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility (Austria), john.tait[at]ir-facility.org, Information Retrieval Facility, Eschenbachgasse 11 , A-1010 Vienna, Phone: +43-1-585 73 61 – 53, www.ir-facility.org 
•    Organisation: Georg Sommer, Information Retrieval Facility (Austria), georg.sommer[at]ir-facility.org, Information Retrieval Facility, Eschenbachgasse 11, A-1010 Vienna, Phone: +43-1-585 73 61 – 42, www.ir-facility.org