The IRF
The Information Retrieval Facility (IRF) is an open IR science institution. The institution is managed by leading international experts in the field who ensure the highest quality in the research supported.
The IRF Mission:
- to bridge the gap between IR research and Industry and bring the latest IR technologies to the community of patent professionals
- to maintain a facility that enables large scale IR and in-depth patent processing
- to establish IR methods, tools and standards suited to the demands of IP professionals
- to provide open-access solutions
- to support computational infrastructure
- to provide access to a large and high-quality corpus of patent data
- to support communication between the IP and IR communities
- to organise the IRF Symposium
- to support and coordinate academic projects
The IRF targets members in the following categories:
- Industrial information professionals
- Researchers in information retrieval
- Patent authorities and governmental institutions
The IRF brings together:
- IP researchers from global industrial corporations
- The global academic keyplayers in IR research
- A high quality data corpus of global patent documents
- Semantic supercomputing
