Sorry for ovelook. For some technical reasons, major links to the
program detail became lost from my previous posting.
Symposium schedule:
http://www.ir-facility.org/images/uploads/IRFSymposiumSchedule.pdf
Presentation slides, videos bios
(http://www.ir-facility.org/index.php/public/article/225)
Full Program with abstracts
http://www.ir-facility.org/images/uploads/IRFS2007_programme.pdf
Alex
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From: Belinskiy, Aleksandr PH/US
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 1:36 AM
To: PIUG Discussion List @ Listbox
Subject: IRFS 2007 Information Retrieval Symposium "Science Meets
Industry" (Vienna, Nov. 8-9, 2007) -Beginning of new technology in
patent searching?
Dear PIUG Discussion List Members,
I think that described below symposium might be unmentioned by many
list-members. I have learn about it from forthcoming issue of World
Patent Information (2008, No.2). It contains description of IRFS 2007
Information Retrieval Symposium
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wpi.2007.11.003
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.wpi.2007.11.003> , subscription required).
This event named as "Science Meets Industry" brought for face-to-face
meeting top patent information experts and some leading scientist from
Information Retrieval community, about 100 delegates, mostly by Europe
but also from USA, Korea, Australia and Canada.
This is appear to be very interesting event which could facilitate
well-expected changes in the patent information industry
The event was organized by Matrixware Information Services GmbH, a small
Vienna-based software company involved in information research, which
initiated in 2006 Information Retrieval Facility (IRF) project
(presented at EPO Conference in September
2006)http://documents.epo.org/projects/babylon/eponet.nsf/0/E05829831F36
B7FBC12572DB0061F56F/$File/03_matrixware_webber.pdf
<http://documents.epo.org/projects/babylon/eponet.nsf/0/E05829831F36B7FB
C12572DB0061F56F/$File/03_matrixware_webber.pdf> ).
Information Retrieval Facility (IRF) is thought to be independent
not-profit research organization which plan to enable large-scale IP
Research with TREC-standard conference.
About event, see Matrixware PR after the event:
http://www.ir-facility.org/images/uploads/PA_IRFS_2007_en.pdf
<http://www.ir-facility.org/images/uploads/PA_IRFS_2007_en.pdf>
The 2007 Vienna Symposium has two unusual features. The first unusual
feature, mentioned by Michael Blackman in this "Symposium Description":
"all delegates attended by invitation", the second is that copies all
(about 30) presentations and video were posted on the Internet
immediately after Symposium. The latter allows all interested who were
not invited, to review the talks at leisure pace and to think what
implications could bring to professional patent searching evolvement of
new player.
The total time of recording of two-day symposium program is about 8
hours, but it is worth this time. It is outstanding list if speakers
which hard to shortlist - Just review a program,
I want to mention several talks, everybody should listen:
From the searcher side, do not miss a keynote speech of Henk Tomas (then
with Akzo-Nobel) "50 million patents further and we are still searching
like 28 years ago" and a wrap-up session of Stephen Adams, from Magister
Ltd (both speakers are IRF Patent Expert Committee members)
http://www.ir-facility.org/IRFS2007Presentations/Day2_Keynote_Tomas_50%2
0million%20patents%20further.pps
<http://www.ir-facility.org/IRFS2007Presentations/Day2_Keynote_Tomas_50%
20million%20patents%20further.pps> (slides)
and videos
http://www.ir-facility.org/index.php/symposium2007/videos?h2=Henk%20Toma
s&mid=31_tomas
<http://www.ir-facility.org/index.php/symposium2007/videos?h2=Henk%20Tom
as&mid=31_tomas> (~30'))
http://www.ir-facility.org/index.php/symposium2007/videos?h2=Stephen%20A
dams&mid=46_adams
<http://www.ir-facility.org/index.php/symposium2007/videos?h2=Stephen%20
Adams&mid=46_adams> (~20')
From IR side, watch the keynote of C.J. (Keith) van Rijsbergen,
University of Glasgow, information retrieval research veteran, the
Chairman of the IRF Scientific Board, which observed that technology the
industry is using in commercial systems is "lacking sophistication" and
IR technology is mature enough to start large-scale testing on patent
data.
All other talks would speak for themselves and do not need annotation.
[Unfortunately, all discussions, follow Chatham House Rule, were
off-record, and working group topics are not published on the web-site
either, but listed in the "Symposium Description" in above-mentioned the
Word Patent Information issue]
Stephen Adams summarized several reasons why interaction between patent
searchers and academic scientist would not be easy, and some of them are
out of both communities control. The first of barrier to entry is a bad
quality of back-file data . Appear to be that this point is taken:
Information Retrieval Facility (IRF) is supporting "AND2008, 2nd
Workshop on Analytics for Noisy Unstructured Text Data, in conjunction
with SIGIR'08 (July 2008, Singapore)" , which calls for papers for
treatment of noisy data in special application fields, including patent
search and OCR. (http://and2008workshop.googlepages.com/callforpapers
<http://and2008workshop.googlepages.com/callforpapers> )
I hope that IRFS 2007 and further IRF symposiums would increase
competitiveness of the field and encourage our major commercial
providers of patent information work harder to implement new search
technologies for improve precision and recall for processing large set
of data (for example, mentioned in one of talks hybrid Boolean/"best
match" search algorithms or alike).
Regards,
Alex
Aleksandr Belinskiy
Patent Information Scientist
Patent Department
sanofi-aventis
1041 Routes 202/206
P.O. Box. 6800, Mail Stop BW-D-203A,
Bridgewater, NJ 08807-0800
Phone : (908) 231-3294 Fax: (908) 231-4766
E-mail: aleksandr.belinskiy at sanofi-aventis.com
Note: I would caution others from the wrong impression that this meeting
is the first interaction of IR community with patent data:
On previous at least 10 year work, see English language bibliography for
Patent Processing compiled by Prof. Atsushi Fujii:
http://www.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/~fujii/pat_proc_pub.html
<http://www.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/~fujii/pat_proc_pub.html>
or search computer literature database (for example in ACM Digital
library of ACM Guide for Computing Literature,
http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm?coll=portal&dl=ACM
<http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm?coll=portal&dl=ACM>
Cf. goals ACM SIGIR'2000 Workshop on Patent Retrieval Athens, Greece 28
July 2000
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/sigir2000ws/ppt/intro-munkew.files/frame
.htm, Slide 3)
More general references:
SIGIR Annual ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information
Retrieval (1971-2007), Searchable archive
http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=SERIES278&idx=SER...eedings&title=SI=
GIR
Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) Conferences:
http://trec.nist.gov/ <http://trec.nist.gov/>
NTCIR (NII Test Collection for IR Systems) Project
http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/outline/prop-en.html
<http://research.nii.ac.jp/ntcir/outline/prop-en.html>
(includes Patent Task from NTCIR-3)
http://if-lab.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/fujii/ntcfd/index-en.html
<http://if-lab.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/fujii/ntcfd/index-en.html>
<http://if-lab.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/fujii/ntcfd/index-en.html>
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