The Programme
The IRF Symposium focused on five main problem areas within the patent information search and retrieval world as follows:
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?
