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Session on Test Collections
7A: Thursday, 22nd July, 9:00-10:15
Chair: John Tait
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The Commission puts a special focus on patent translation and has prepared a proposal for a Council Regulation on translation arrangements for European patents. Research project PLuTO, in which the IRF partners with DCU, ESTeam, Crosslanguage, and WON, is specifically mentioned in the official text of the proposal from the Commission to the Council.
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The Imperial Riding School Vienna was home of the 1st IRF Conference, the Strategic Seminar and the 3rd IRF Symposium from 31 May to 4 June 2010.
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The survey conducted by Leif Azzopardi, Hideo Joho and Wim Vanderbauwhede (University of Glasgow, UK) and commissioned by the IRF is now available online.
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Out of 21 participants, 12 have finally submitted. There are 25 runs submitted to the Prior Art Candidate Task and 26 runs to the Classification Task. Evaluation results will be
made available on July 25th.
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Allan Hanbury will hold a lecture on "Morphological Watershed
Segmentation" at the Summer School on Image Processing in Cluj-Napoca,
Romania, on the 11th of July.
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the First Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2010, held in Vienna, Austria, im May 2010.
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The AsPIRe Workshop was held on Sunday, March 28th in conjunction with ECIR 2010 in Milton Keynes, UK. A report has just been published in SIGIR Forum, June 2010, Volume 44 Number 1.
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Allan Hanbury will be a member of the panel for the discussion on Thursday the 24th of June at the 8th International Workshop on Multimedia Indexing (CBMI) in Grenoble, France.
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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. The PaIR workshop is collocated with CIKM, Toronto, Canada, and will take place on October 26, 2010; Submission deadline extended: 3 July, 2010, 23:59, Apia Samoa Time (i.e. when Sunday is over all across the Globe)
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Starting with 1 April 2010 the IRF is participating in the European Project PLuTO. The kick-off meeting was successfully held at the IRF office on 5-6 May, where in addition to the project partners, members of the European Commission and the European Patent Office (EPO) were present. The project plan for the next three years was fixed.
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At this year's PIUG meeting in Baltimore John Tait presents: "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Patent Search Systems".
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Florina Piroi speaks about "Evaluation campaigns in patent retrieval at IRF" on May 6th, 2010.
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The IRF is happy to announce its participation in the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme in Data Mining and Knowledge Management and will provide one scholarship for an excellent student. Deadline to apply for a scholarship for both EU students and scholars is: April, 25th, 2010; 12:00 GMT
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For the first time the Patent Language Translations Online (PLuTO) project will be presented to the public at the Language Technology Days (22-23 March 2010) organised by Unit E1, DG Information Society & Media of the European Commission, in Luxembourg.
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The IRF senior scientist Allan Hanbury will give a talk on "Colour and Emotion in Images" (in French) at the Seminar on Mathematical Morphology, Structure and Connections, to be held on the 2nd of April at the ESIEE Paris.
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We are pleased to announce the list of accepted papers.
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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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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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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 the keynote speaker at the 3rd IRF Symposium 2010 in Vienna, Austria.
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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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The scholarship for 2010 - 2013 is granted to Parvaz Mahdabi.
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The Information Retrieval Facility offers access to a workflow platform that facilitates the reuse of experimental developments.
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The CLEF-IP track continues in 2010.
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The open source projects are now available to IRF scientific members
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The IRF is the only European institution to provide access to 1 billion web crawl data.
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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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Linda Andersson, member of the IRF staff, is invited to present the outcome of her Master thesis.
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It was decided at the TREC conference to continue the chemical track in 2010.
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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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A prototype evaluation class organised in conjunction with the 3rd Information Retrieval Symposium in June 2010
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IRF PostDoc researcher Mihai Lupu co-authors book on Peer-to-Peer Computing published by Springer.
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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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The 1st International Workshop on Advances in Patent Information Retrieval (AsPIRe'10) will be collocated with the ECIR 2010.
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The project with focus on the ASEAN region will start in January 2010.
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The 2nd international workshop on patent information retrieval will take place on Nov. 6, 2009 in Hong Kong.
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The results of the CLEF-IP 09 track have been presented at the CLEF-Campaign Workshop in Corfu, Greece
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The IRF organises its 1st scientific conference on May 31, 2010 in Vienna.
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John Tait, CSO of the IRF, to speak at the International Conference on Corporate Intellectual Property Strategy in Zhengzhou.
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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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IRF Scientific Members now have access to the first standardised patent data corpus for research purposes.
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