1. Data Quality

• OCR errors in patent full-text documents
• effective retrieval of misrecognised scanned documents
• user errors in formulating queries and IR techniques to overcome them

2. Language Gap

• machine translation of Chinese patents: an overview of the challenges
• automatic machine translation – focus on Asian languages
• cross lingual retrieval issues in the Korean language
• what’s different with Chinese in cross-language IR?

3. Corpus Enrichment

• focusing the search process to segments
• a picture speaks in 1000 words: retrieving the information hidden in patents
• presentation and searching of molecules in chemical patents
• classification and industry-specific terms and keywords metadata
• term semantics by association
• automatic concept identification
• developments in the evaluation of search engines.

4. Tools for Information Professionals

• 50 million patents further and we are still searching like 28 years ago
• issues and approaches on interactive patent retrieval: evaluations of sessions rather than queries
• how do we go about patent searching?
• interfacing with search results
• handling search results.

5. Tools for Management & Research

• patent analysis from an IP perspective
• patent mapping and visualization: what is the state of the art?