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Overview

Evaluating Information Retrieval techniques in the Intellectual Property domain.

The CLEF-IP track was launched in 2009 to investigate IR techniques for patent retrieval. After a successful first year, the track continues in 2010 as a benchmarking activity at the coming CLEF 2010 conference.

The track will utilize a slightly larger data collection as in CLEF-IP'09, of patent documents derived from EPO sources, covering English, French, and German patents.

Two kinds of tasks are planned for 2010:

  • Prior Art Candidate Search Task: find patent documents that are likely to constitute prior art to a given patent application.
  • Classification Task: classify a given patent document according to the IPC and/or ECLA.

 

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Co-ordinators:

  • John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility
  • Florina Piroi, Information Retrieval Facility

 

Advisory board:

  • Kalervo JÄRVELIN (University of Tamperem FI)
  • Noriko KANDO (National Institute of Informatics, JP)
  • Javier POSE RODRÍGUEZ (European Patent Office, DE)
  • Giovanna RODA (Matrixware GmbH, AT)
  • Mark SANDERSON (University of Sheffield, UK)
  • Anthony TRIPPE (3LP Advisors, US)
  • Christa WOMSER-HACKER (Hildesheim University, DE)

 

Schedule for the CLEF-IP 2010 track

 

Event

Planned Date

Data Release

March 22, 2010

Training Data Release

March 31, 2010

Topic Release

April 12, 2010

Run Submission

June 14-20, 2010

Evaluation Results Release                                                       

July 12, 2010

Workshop Notes Submission

August 15, 2010 
(hard deadline)

Workshop September 20-23, 2010

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