Videos and Presentations

Day 1 - Wednesday 5th November 2008

"IP for IR" Tutorial

• George Shreck
  Product Manager, Landon IP
  Biography
  IP for IR Tutorial A
  

   

• Kristian Luoto
  Senior IPR Manager, Nokia Siemens Networks
  Biography
  IP for IR Tutorial B
  

   

   

"IR for IP" Tutorial

IR for IP Tutorial

• Thomas Roelleke
  Lecturer, Computer Science, Queen Mary University, London
  Biography
  

   

• Erik Graf
  Research Student, Department of Computing, University of Glasgow
  Biography
  

   

Day 2 - Thursday 6th November 2008

Opening Sessions

• Ludovit Garzik
  Managing Director of the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development
  Watch the video
  

   

• John Tait
  Chief Scientific Officer, IRF
  Watch the video
  

   

   

Session 1 - Multilinguality - Asian and Cyrillic Languages

• Sandra Bailly
  Senior Information Scientist, Procter & Gamble
  Biography
  Challenges of the Asian IP information for non native speakers
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• Jian-Yun Nie
  Professor, University of Montreal
  Biography
  Possible solutions to identify IP Information in Asian languages
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• Q & A
  Chair: Noriko Kando
  Professor, National Institute of Informatics (NII)
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• Benjamin T'sou
  Director, Language Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong
  Biography
  Terminological Difference and Content Convergence: Automobile Patents from Mainland China and Taiwan
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• Kamil Milushev
  IP Coordinator, Tashkent Chemical Technological Institute
  Biography
  Patent Cyrillic information related to Russian language
  No video available as Kamil Milushev could not attend the IRFS2008.

   

• Jaques Savoy
  Professor, Institut d´Informatique, University of Neuchatel
  Biography
  Searching across Different Languages
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• Q & A
  Chair: Benjamin T'sou
  Director, Language Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong
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Session 2 - Annotations and Ontologies in the Context of Patent Retrieval

• Pierre Buffet
  Executive Vice President, Questel
  Biography
  How NLP techniques can and should help in structuring patent information
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• Eric Gaussier
  Professor, LIG (Lab. d´Informatique de Grenoble), Universite Joseph Fourier
  Biography
  Annotations and Ontologies in the Context of Patent Retrieval
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• Q & A
  Chair: Wolfgang Thielemann
  Head of Information Retrieval and Analysis, Bayer Healthcare AG
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Session 3 - Matrixware Contribution: Alexandria and Leonardo

• Mike Baycroft
  CEO, Fairview Research
  Biography
  Matrixware's Alexandria Project
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• Rick Vieira
  VP Business Development, Matrixware
  Biography
  Leonardo by Matrixware
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• Q & A
  Chair: Christoph Haxel
  Global Head of Sales and Marketing, Matrixware
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Session 4 - Interfacing (Collaborative Assessment of Relevance)

• Keith Dilley
  Director IP Processes & Tools Development, GE Corporate
  Biography
  Informatics & Analytics - The Team Approach
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• Hideo Joho
  Research Assistant, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
  Biography
  Sharing relevant information by collaborative search
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• Q & A
  Chair: Torsten Rambusch
  Head Information Science, Roche Diagnostics GmbH
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Session 5 - Non-Text Retrieval

• Monika Hanelt
  Information Services Manager, Agfa Graphics NV
  Biography
  Searching non-textual information – a severe challenge?
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• Stefanos Vrochidis
  Electrical and Computer Engineer, Informatics and Telematics Institute
  Biography
  Patent Image Retrieval
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• Q & A
  Chair: Gerard Ypma
  Senior Patent Searcher, ASML Netherlands BV
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Day 3 - Friday 7th November 2008

Session 6 - Project Presentations

• Valentin Tablan
  Research Fellow, University of Sheffield
  Biography
  Semantic Annotation for IP
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• Cornelis Koster
  Professor, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
  Biography
  Text Mining for Intellectual Property
  Watch the video
  

   

• Leif Azzopardi
  Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
  Biography
  Mapping how easily documents can be found
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• Panel Q & A
  Chair: John Tait
  Chief Scientific Officer, IRF
  Biography
  Watch the video
  

   

   

Session 7 - Tuning IR - IP Collaboration through Patent Search Evaluation Panel

• Noriko Kando
  Professor, National Institute of Informatics (NII, Japan)
  Biography
  Evaluation of Patent Retrieval at NTCIR and its Implications for Better IP Services
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• Ellen Voorhees
  Manager Retrieval Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  Biography
  The TREC Track Structure
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• Maristella Agosti
  Professor, University of Padua
  Biography
  CLEF Evaluation
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• Q & A
  Chair: John Tait
  Chief Scientific Officer, IRF
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Wrap-up Sessions

• Mark Sanderson
  Reader in Information Retrieval, University of Sheffield
  Biography
  Watch the video
  

   

• Stephen Adams
  Managing Director, Magister Ltd
  Biography
  Watch the video
  

   

   

Closing Speech

• Francisco Webber
  Chairman of the Executive Board, IRF
  CEO , Matrixware Information Services GmbH
  Biography
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