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2010 | 03 | 10

Presentations at the IRF Conference, 31 May 2010, Vienna

We are pleased to announce the list of accepted papers.
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2010 | 03 | 05

CLEF-IP 2010 - Call for Participation

Evaluating Information Retrieval Techniques in the Intellectual Property Domain. After an interesting and rewarding first year, the Intellectual Property evaluation campaign (CLEF-IP) continues in 2010 as a benchmarking activity of the forthcoming "Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation", CLEF 2010.
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2010 | 02 | 12

Teams for PatOlympics announced

To foster the interaction between system developers and information professionals we invite you to experience an innovative and very athletic competition:
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2010 | 02 | 03

James Boyle confirmed as IRF Symposium 2010 keynote speaker

James Boyle, co-founder of Creative Commons and Science Commons, and one of the most influential creative thinkers and expert of Intellectual Property (IP) in the information society is to give keynote speech at the 3rd IRF Symposium 2010 in Vienna, Austria.
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2010 | 02 | 03

IRF Keynote at ICT Technology Transfer Conference

On March 16th, 2010 IRF Chief Scientific Officer John Tait and IRF Executive Chairman Francisco Eduardo De Sousa Webber are invited as keynote speakers at the ICT Technology Transfer Conference in Vienna.
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2010 | 01 | 12

Inforsense @ the IRF

The Information Retrieval Facility offers access to a workflow platform that facilitates the reuse of experimental developments.
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2010 | 01 | 11

CLEF-IP track part of the CLEF 2010 Conference

The CLEF-IP track continues in 2010.
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2009 | 12 | 18

PSVM and PLDA algorithms on the LDC

The open source projects are now available to IRF scientific members
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2009 | 12 | 17

ClueWeb09 data collection now available

The IRF is the only European institution to provide access to 1 billion web crawl data.
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2009 | 12 | 16

3rd IRF-TU Wien doctoral seminar

On Dec 3rd 2009 more than 20 students, several IR and IP researchers and experts came together for the third IRF-TU Wien doctoral seminar.
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2009 | 12 | 15

Presentation at Swedish Patent and Registration Office

Linda Andersson, member of the IRF staff, is invited to present the outcome of her Master thesis.
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2009 | 12 | 04

TREC-CHEM going forward in 2010

It was decided at the TREC conference to continue the chemical track in 2010.
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2009 | 12 | 04

AsPIRE'10 training set available for download

The MAREC 400,000 collection consists of 100,000 randomly picked patents from each sub-collection of the MAREC dataset (EPS, JPO, USPTO, WIPO).
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2009 | 12 | 01

PatOlympics

A prototype evaluation class organised in conjunction with the 3rd Information Retrieval Symposium in June 2010
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2009 | 11 | 30

New Publication: Peer-to-Peer Computing

IRF PostDoc researcher Mihai Lupu co-authors book on Peer-to-Peer Computing published by Springer.
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2009 | 11 | 10

Strategic Seminar at the IRF Symposium 2010

This all-day seminar aimed at executives responsible for business and valuation aspects of Intellectual Property (IP) within their organisation will take place in Vienna, on June 1 2010.
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2009 | 11 | 10

IRF organises first AsPIRe Workshop

The 1st International Workshop on Advances in Patent Information Retrieval (AsPIRe'10) will be collocated with the ECIR 2010.
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2009 | 11 | 02

SEALING project successfully evaluated by the EC

The project with focus on the ASEAN region will start in January 2010.
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2009 | 10 | 23

Patent Information Retrieval Workshop

The 2nd international workshop on patent information retrieval will take place on Nov. 6, 2009 in Hong Kong.
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2009 | 10 | 13

CLEF-IP 09 successfully completed

The results of the CLEF-IP 09 track have been presented at the CLEF-Campaign Workshop in Corfu, Greece
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2009 | 09 | 30

Call for Participation IRF Conference

The IRF organises its 1st scientific conference on May 31, 2010 in Vienna.
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2009 | 09 | 16

The IRF goes China

John Tait, CSO of the IRF, to speak at the International Conference on Corporate Intellectual Property Strategy in Zhengzhou.
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2009 | 08 | 25

IRF Talk on Text Mining at Fraunhofer Symposium

John Tait, Chief Scientific Officer of the IRF, is invited to talk at the 7th Fraunhofer Symposium on Text Mining in Bonn.
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2009 | 07 | 31

MAREC data now available

IRF Scientific Members now have access to the first standardised patent data corpus for research purposes.
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