http://www.ir-facility.org hourly 1 2009-10-05T12:00+00:00 http://www.ir-facility.org/news/irf/sigir-2010-session-on-test-collection Session on Test Collections 7A: Thursday, 22nd July, 9:00-10:15 Chair: John Tait No publisher IRF (c) IRF 2010-07-19T01:40:00Z Page http://www.ir-facility.org/news/irf/eu-commission-proposes-translation-arrangements-for-future-eu-patent 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. No publisher IRF (c) IRF 2010-07-15T10:10:00Z Page http://www.ir-facility.org/news/irf/irf-conference-symposium-and-strategic-seminar-2010-review 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. No publisher IRF (c) IRF 2010-07-06T21:40:00Z Page http://www.ir-facility.org/news/irf/irf-survey-on-patent-search-behavior The survey conducted by Leif Azzopardi, Hideo Joho and Wim Vanderbauwhede (University of Glasgow, UK) and commissioned by the IRF is now available online. No publisher IRF (c) IRF 2010-07-06T17:40:00Z Page http://www.ir-facility.org/news/irf/clef-ip-2010-submission-deadline-extended 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. No publisher IRF (c) IRF 2010-07-05T14:25:00Z Page http://www.ir-facility.org/news/irf/18th-summer-school-on-image-processing 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. No publisher IRF (c) IRF 2010-07-05T08:40:00Z Page http://www.ir-facility.org/news/irf/new-publication-advances-in-multidisciplinary-retrieval This book constitutes the proceedings of the First Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2010, held in Vienna, Austria, im May 2010. No publisher IRF (c) IRF 2010-06-24T08:40:00Z Page http://www.ir-facility.org/news/irf/report-aspire10-workshop 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. No publisher IRF (c) IRF 2010-06-15T14:25:00Z Page http://www.ir-facility.org/news/irf/workshop-on-multimedia-indexing 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. No publisher IRF (c) IRF 2010-06-08T14:25:00Z Page http://www.ir-facility.org/news/irf/pair-2010-workshop-call-for-papers 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) No publisher IRF (c) IRF 2010-05-19T14:25:00Z Page http://www.ir-facility.org/news/irf/irf-partners-in-european-project-patent-language-translations-online 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. No publisher IRF (c) IRF 2010-05-07T14:25:00Z Page http://www.ir-facility.org/news/irf/irf-at-piug-annual-conference-2010 At this year's PIUG meeting in Baltimore John Tait presents: "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Patent Search Systems". No publisher IRF (c) IRF 2010-04-30T14:25:00Z Page http://www.ir-facility.org/news/irf/irf-presentation-at-knowright2010 Florina Piroi speaks about "Evaluation campaigns in patent retrieval at IRF" on May 6th, 2010. No publisher IRF (c) IRF 2010-04-25T14:25:00Z Page http://www.ir-facility.org/news/irf/application-deadline-for-erasmus-mundus-master-in-data-mining-and-knowledge-mangement 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 No publisher IRF (c) IRF 2010-04-10T14:25:00Z Page http://www.ir-facility.org/news/irf/presentation-of-pluto 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. No publisher IRF (c) IRF 2010-03-18T11:30:00Z Page