Publications

  • M. Lupu, K. Mayer, J. Tait, A. J. Trippe (eds), Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval, Springer (to appear 2011)

  • A. Hanbury, C. Boyer, M. Gschwandtner and H. Müller, KHRESMOI: towards a multi-lingual search and access system for biomedical information, Med-e-Tel 2011 conference proceedings, to appear.

  • J.S. Luciano, B. Andersson, C. Batchelor, O. Bodenreider, T. Clark, C. Denney, C. Domarew, T. Gambet, L. Harland, A. Jentzsch, V. Kashyap, P. Kos, J. Kozlovsky, T. Lebo, M.S. Marshall, J.P. McCusker, D.L. McGuiness, C. Ogbuji, E. Pichler, R.L. Powers, E. Prud'hommeaux, M. Samwald, L. Schriml, P.J. Tonellato, P.L. Whetzel, J. Zhao, S. Stephens, and M. Dumontier, The Translational Medicine Ontology and Knowledge Base: Driving personalized medicine by bridging the gap between bench and bedside, Journal of Biomedical Semantics (accepted)

  • M. Samwald, A. Jentzsch, C. Bouton, C.S. Kallesoe, E. Willighagen, J. Hajagos, M.S. Marshall, E. Prud'hommeaux, O Hassanzadeh, E. Pichler and S. Stephens, Linked open drug data for pharmaceutical research and development. Journal of Cheminformatics. (accepted with revisions)

  • M. Samwald, J. Zhao, M. Dumontier, M.S. Marshall, K. Cheung and J.S. Luciano, Translating ethnopharmacological findings into novel drug leads: the potential roles of linked open data and ontologies. In: 2011 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics. 2011.  

  • J.S. Luciano, B. Andersson, C. Batchelor, O. Bodenreider, T. Clark, C. Denney, C. Domarew, T. Gambet, A. Jentzsch, V. Kashyap, P. Kos, J. Kozlovsky, M.S. Marshall, J.P. McCusker, D.L. McGuiness, T. Lebo, C. Ogbuji, E. Pichler, R.L. Powers, E. Prud'hommeaux, M. Samwald, L. Schriml, P.J. Tonellato, P.L. Whetzel, J. Zhao, S. Stephens and M. Dumontier, The Translational Medicine Ontology and Knowledge Base: Using Semantic Web Technology in Personalized Medicine for Data Integration. In: 2011 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics. 2011

  • M. Samwald, M. Dumontier, J. Zhao, J.S. Luciano, M.S. Marshall and K. Cheung, Integrating findings of traditional medicine with modern pharmaceutical research: the potential role of linked open data. Chin Med. 2010;5(1):43.

  • S. Nowak, A. Hanbury and T. Deselaers, Object Recognition for Retrieval, In: ImageCLEF – Experimental evaluation of visual information retrieval, pages 199–216, Springer, 2010.

  • L. Andersson, A Vector Space analysis of Swedish patent claims with different linguistic indices, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval (PaIR), 2010, pages 47-56, Toronto, Canada.

  • M. Lupu, F. Piroi and A. Hanbury, Aspects and Analysis of Patent Test Collections, Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval (PaIR'10), 2010, pages 17-22, Toronto, Canada.

  • M. Braschler, K. Choukri, N. Ferro, A. Hanbury, J. Karlgren, H. Müller, V. Petras, E. Pianta, M. de Rijke and G Santucci, A PROMISE for Experimental Evaluation, Proceedings of the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation 2010, Springer LNCS 6360, pages 140–144, Padua, Italy.

  • H. Cunningham, A. Hanbury and S. Rüger, Scaling up High-Value Retrieval to Medium-Volume Data, Advances in Multidisciplinary Retrieval, Springer LNCS 6107, pages 1–5, Vienna, Austria.

  • H. Cunningham, A. Hanbury and S. Rueger (eds), Advances in Multidisciplinary Retrieval. 1st Information Retrieval Facility Conference, Springer LNCS 6107, 2010

  • A. Hanbury and H. Müller, Automated Component-Level Evaluation: Present and Future, Proceedings of the Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation 2010, Springer LNCS 6360, pages 124–135, Padua, Italy.

  • A. Hanbury, V. Zenz and H. Berger, 1st International Workshop on Advances in Patent Information Retrieval (AsPIRe'10), SIGIR Forum, Vol. 44, No. 1, June 2010.

  • G. Roda, J. Tait, F. Piroi and V. Zenz, CLEF-IP 2009: Retrieval Experiments in the Intellectual Property Domain, in Peters, C., Di Nunzio, G.M., Kurimo, M., Mostefa, D., Penas, A. and Roda, G. (eds) Multilingual Information Access Evaluation I. Text Retrieval Experiments 10th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2009, Corfu, Greece, September 30 - October 2, 2009, Revised Selected Papers, pages 385-409, Springer LNCS, Volume 6241, 2010.

  • K. Beuls, B. Pflugfelder and A. Hanbury, Comparative Analysis of Balanced Winnow and SVM in Large Scale Patent Categorization, Proceedings of the 10th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR) 2010, pages 8-15, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

  • G. Roda, J. Tait, F. Piroi and V. Zenz, CLEF-IP 2009: Retrieval Experiments in the Intellectual Property Domain, Working Notes for the CLEF 2009 Workshop, Corfu, Greece.

  • M. Lupu, J. Huang, J. Zhu, and J. Tait, TREC-CHEM: large scale chemical information retrieval evaluation at TREC, SIGIR Forum 43(2) (Dec. 2009), pp. 63-70. DOI

  • M. Lupu, F. Piroi, J. Huang, J. Zhu and J. Tait, Overview of the TREC Chemical IR Track, Proceedings of the 18th Text Retrieval Conference, 2009

  • J. Tait, Information Retrieval Research and Patent Retrieval, Guest Editorial; World Patent Information 31(4), pp. 268-270. 2009. ISSN 0172-2190.

  • J. Tait, M. Lupu, H. Berger, G. Roda, M. Dittenbach, A. Pesenhofer, E. Graf and K. van Rijsbergen, Patent Search: An important new test bed for IR, in Hiemstra, D., Huibers, T.W.C, de Jong, F.M.G. (eds.) Proceedings of the 9th Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop, CTIT Workshop Proceedings WP 09-01, Enschede, University of Twente, Centre for Telematics and Information Technology; ISSN 0929-0672; No 09-01 (CTIT Workshop Proceedings Series) pp. 56-63

  • F. Lazarinis, J. Vilares, J. Tait and E. N. Efthimiadis, Current research issues and trends in non-English Web searching, Information Retrieval: Volume 12, Issue3 (2009), Pages 230-250.

  • G. Roda, V. Zenz, M. Lupu, K. Järvelin, M. Sanderson and C. Womser-Hacker, So Many Topics, So Little Time, SIGIR Forum 43(1), 2009

  • Q. H. Vu, M. Lupu and B.-C. Ooi, Peer-to-Peer Computing, Principle and Applications, Springer Verlag, 2009

  • J. Tait, What's wrong with CLIR? Proceedings of the SIGIR'09 Workshop on Multi-Lingual Information Access, 2009, Boston, USA.

  • A. Hanbury and H. Müller, Toward Automated Component-Level Evaluation, Proc. SIGIR Workshop on the Future of IR Evaluation, 2009, pages 29–30, Boston, USA.

  • Q. H. Vu, M. Lupu, S. Wu, SiMPSON: Efficient Similarity Search in Metric Spaces over P2P Structured Overlay Networks, Proceedings of Euro-Par 2009

  • J. Tait, H. Berger, M. Dittenbach and M. Lupu (eds), Proceedings of the 2nd international workshop on Patent information retrieval, 2009

  • J. Tait, Information Retrieval Facility Symposium in Vienna. SIGIR Forum 42(1) (Jun. 2008), p. 67. DOI

  • J. Zhu and J. Tait, A proposal for chemical information retrieval evaluation, In Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Patent information Retrieval (Napa Valley, California, USA, October 30, 2008). PaIR '08. ACM, New York, NY, 15-18. DOI

  • J. Tait, Noise and information. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data (Singapore, July 24 - 24, 2008). AND '08, vol. 303. ACM, New York, NY. DOI

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Further IRF Publications

  • J. Stöttinger, B. Goras, T. Pönitz, N. Sebe, A. Hanbury and T. Gevers, Systematic Evaluation of Spatio-temporal Features on Comparative Video Challenges, Proceedings of the 10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), 2nd International Workshop on Video Event Categorization, Tagging and Retrieval (VECTaR2010), Queenstown, New Zealand, 2010.

  • J. Machajdik and A. Hanbury, Affective Image Classification using Features Inspired by Psychology and Art Theory, ACM Multimedia 2010 - Multimedia Content Track Full Paper, Florence, Italy.

  • J. Stöttinger, B. Goras, N. Sebe and A. Hanbury, Behavior and Properties of Spatio-temporal Local Features under Visual Transformations, ACM Multimedia 2010 - Multimedia Content Track Short Paper, Florence, Italy.

  • R. Khan, A. Hanbury, J. Stöttinger, Skin Detection: A Random Forest Approach, Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2010, pages 4613-4616, Hong Kong, China.

  • J. Stöttinger, S. Zambanini, R. Khan and A. Hanbury, FeEval - A dataset for evaluation of spatio-temporal local features, Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010, pages 499-504, Istanbul, Turkey.

  • T. Pönitz, R. Donner, J.Stöttinger and A. Hanbury, Efficient and Distinct Large Scale Bags of Words, Proceedings of the 34th Annual Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern Recognition (AAPR), 2010, Zwettl, Austria.

  • A. Hanbury, H. Müller and P. Clough, Editorial: Special issue on image and video retrieval evaluation, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 114(4), pp 409-410, April 2010.

  • N. A. Bhatti and A. Hanbury, Co-occurrence Bag of Words for Object Recognition, Proceedings of the 15th Computer Vision Winter Workshop (CVWW) 2010, pages 21–28, Nové Hrady, Czech Republic.

  • R. Khan, A. Hanbury and J. Stöttinger, Weighted Skin Color Segmentation and Detection Using Graph Cuts, Proceedings of the 15th Computer Vision Winter Workshop (CVWW) 2010, pages 107-114, Nové Hrady, Czech Republic.

  • J. Stöttinger, J. Banova, T. Pönitz, N. Sebe and A. Hanbury, Translating Journalists' Requirements into Features for Image Search, 15th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM) 2009, IEEE, pages 149–153, Vienna, Austria.

  • J. Stöttinger, A. Hanbury, C. Liensberger and R. Khan, Skin Paths for Contextual Flagging Adult Videos, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC) 2009, Springer LNCS 5876, pages 303–314, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

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Research performed by the IRF

  • IRF-TR-2010-00005: Florina Piroi, John Tait, CLEF-IP 2010: Retrieval Experiments in the Intellectual Property Domain, October 2010. (Also available as a Notebook Paper of the CLEF 2010 Informal Proceedings.)

  • IRF-TR-2010-00004: Florina Piroi, CLEF-IP 2010: Classification Task Evaluation Summary, August 2010.

  • IRF-TR-2010-0003: Florina Piroi, CLEF-IP 2010: Prior Art Candidates Search Evaluation Summary, July 2010.

  • IRF-TR-2010-00002: Florina Piroi, Giovanna Roda, Veronika Zenz, CLEF-IP 2009: Evaluation Summary - Part Two, July 2010. 

  • IRF-TR-2009-00002: Katrien M.B. Beuls, Text Categorization for Intellectual Property: Comparing Balanced Winnow with SVM on Different Document Representations, August 2009.

  • IRF-TR-2009-00001: Florina Piroi, Giovanna Roda, Veronika Zenz, CLEF-IP 2009 Evaluation Summary, July 2009.

Research commissioned by the IRF

  • IRF-TR-2010-00001: L. Azzopardi, H. Joho and W. Vanderbauwhede, A Survey on Patent Users Search Behavior.

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