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 |
| Workshop | September 20-23, 2010 |

