Current Projects
All scientific results and methods applied will be made publicly accessible and are widely documented.
The material can be used both for the academic training environment and for providers of commercial solutions.
Current Research Projects
This list shows some current research activities within the IRF.
- Query Expansion for Blog Searching
- Complex Noun Phrases and IPC Codes
- Cumulative Corpus Refinement
- OCRQ: Detection of OCR Quality on Patents
- Semantic Annotation
- Text Mining for Intellectual Property
- Searching for Prior-Art Patents
- Charting Search in the patent space: Mapping how easily documents can be found
- Large Scale Logical Retrieval
- Distributed Extension of the Information Retrieval platform TERRIER
- Developing IR and Filtering applications using FPGAs and MITRION-C
- Optimization of IR toolkit LEMUR/INDRI for HPC platform ALTIX
- CLEF-IP09 TRACK

