The Presentations

Videos, presentation slides and biographies from all speakers of the IRFS 2007

Day 1 - Data Issues

• Johannes Hahn
  Austrian Federal Minister for Science and Research
  Welcome Address
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• C.J. van Rijsbergen, Chairman of the IRF Scientific Board
  Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Glasgow
  Biography
  Keynote
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Session 1 - Data quality

• Wolfgang Thielemann
  Head of Information Retrieval and Analysis, Bayer Healthcare AG
  Biography
  OCR errors in patent full-text documents
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• R. Manmatha
  Research Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts
  Biography
  Effective retrieval of misrecognized scanned documents
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• Linus Wretblad, CEO, Uppdragshuset AB
  Joni Sayeler, Marketing Manager, Uppdragshuset AB
  Biography
  IPR system error!
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• Birger Larsen
  Associate Professor, Royal School of Library and Information Science
  Biography
  User errors in formulating queries and IR techniques to overcome them
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Session 2 - Language gap

• Barrou Diallo
  Head of Research, European Patent Office
  Biography
  Machine Translation of Chinese patents: an overview of the challenges
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• Key-Sun Choi
  Professor and Head of Department, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
  Biography
  Automatic Machine Translation - Focus on Asian languages
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• Minah Kim
  Assistant Manager, Korea Institute of Patent Information
  Biography
  Cross lingual patent retrieval issues in Korean language
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• Jian-Yun Nie
  Professor, University of Montreal
  Biography
  What’s different with Chinese in cross-language IR?
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Session 3 - Corpus enrichment

• Monika Hanelt
  Information Manager, Agfa Graphics NV
  Biography
  From patent searcher’s wish list – searching in all different patent segments
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• Mounia Lalmas
  Professor of Information Retrieval, Queen Mary, University of London
  Biography
  Focusing the search process to segments
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• Jane List
  Information Specialist, The Technology Partnership
  Biography
  A picture speaks a thousand words: retrieving the information hidden In patents
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• Peter Willett
  Professor, Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield
  Biography
  Representation and searching of molecules in chemical patents
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• Gerald Landl
  Head of IP-rights and standards, voestalpine Stahl GmbH
  Biography
  Classification & industry-specific terms and keywords – Metadata
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• Peter Bruza
  Professor, Faculty of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology
  Biography
  Term semantics by association
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• Daniel J. Phelps
  Director, DJP Information Consulting Services, LLC
  Biography
  Automatic concept identification: extracting problem solved concepts from patent documents
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• Gregory Grefenstette
  Research Scientist, CEA List
  Biography
  Automatic concept identification
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• Piet van Zanten
  IP Information Specialist, Philips Intellectual Property & Standards
  Biography
  The need of evaluation methodologies in practice
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• Mark Sanderson
  Reader in Information Retrieval, University of Sheffield
  Biography
  Developments in evaluation of search engines
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Day 2 - Application Issues

• Henk Tomas
  IP Information Specialist, IP Search Services - Tomas
  Biography
  “50 million patents further and we are still searching like 28 years ago”
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Session 4 - Tools for information professionals

• Kalervo Järvelin
  Academy Professor, Department of Information Studies, University of Tampere
  Biography
  Issues and approaches on interactive patent retrieval: evaluation of sessions rather than queries
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• Minoo Philipp
  Patent Information Manager, Henkel KGaA
  Biography
  How do we go about searching for patent information?
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• Ian Ruthven
  Reader, University of Strathclyde
  Biography
  Interfacing with search results
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• Antoine Blanchard
  Patent Information Specialist, Syngenta Crop Protection AG
  Biography
  Handling search results
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Session 5 - Tools for management & research

• Leo Wanner
  Professor, ICREA and Pompeu Fabra University
  Biography
  Patent analysis – Delivering on promises
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• Haydn Evans
  Senior IP Analyst, GE Healthcare
  Biography
  Patent analysis – Delivering on promises
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• Matthias Hemmje
  Professor, FernUniversität in Hagen
  Biography
  Supporting patent retrieval in the context of innovation processes by means of information visualization
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• Anthony J. Trippe
  Sr. Innovation Manager, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
  Biography
  Patent mapping and visualization:  what is the state of the art?
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• Francisco Webber
  CEO Matrixware
  Biography
  TempRanger Showcase
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• Stephen Adams
  IRF Patent Expert Committee, Managing Director, Magister Ltd.
  Biography
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