The Working Groups
The symposium wound up in eight interdisciplinary working groups set up to discuss specific problems and potential methods of resolution.
Furthermore, these working groups will ensure a continuous dialogue and a sustainable development process beyond the IRFS. These teams, consisting of IR and IP experts, will cooperate on their chosen tasks and present their approaches and solutions at the IRFS2008.
- How can we help searchers to formulate better queries?
- What are the shortcomings of current search tools which could be overcome using proven techniques from IR?
- Which search instruments (in the near future) could form an alternative for the existing search tool?
- What are the shortcomings of deduplicating and relevance checking tools which could be overcome using proven techniques from IR?
- How can we generate real or realistic queries and relevance judged search result sets as IR test collections?
- Joint development of patent search use cases; what are the restrictions and opportunities?
- How to deal with human or OCR-generated data errors?
- How to search non-text information in patents?
- How are languages interfering with search, understanding and comparison of patents?
- How can classification and reclassification of (multi-lingual) patents into IPC categories be optimized?
