[PIUG List] FW: [SIG-IRList] Call for Participation: 1st Intnl CIKM Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval PaIR'08; Oct 30, 2008; Napa Valley, CA, USA - [Tentative Program is included]

 

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Patent Information Retrieval PaIR'08; Oct 30, 2008; Napa Valley, CA, USA

From: Michael Dittenbach [mailto:m.dittenbach @ matrixware.com]
Subject: PaIR'08

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                       Call for Particiation

                               PaIR'08
    1st International CIKM Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval
              http://www.ir-facility.org/events/pair08

                          October 30, 2008
                   Napa Valley Marriott Hotel & Spa,
                       Napa Valley, California
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Objective
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PaIR'08 (co-located with CIKM 2008) provides a forum for Information
Retrieval and Knowledge Management scientists as well as Patent
Retrieval experts from industry to study the next generation of patent
search tools. The workshop presents a balanced mixture of IP
professionals, presenting their special information needs and IR&KM
researchers, presenting relevant technical ideas, for example for high
recall search in prior art searching or new approaches to patent and
technology landscape searching.

Program
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* Keynote
 - John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility (IRF)

* Invited Talk
 - Anthony Trippe, Chemical Abstract Services (CAS)

* Paper Presentations
 - Niraj Aswani, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham,
   Thomas Heitz, Yaoyong Li and Valentin Tablan:
   Large-scale, Parallel Automatic Patent Annotation
 - Aaron Chu, Shigeyuki Sakurai and Alfonso Cardenas:
   Automatic Detection of Treatment Relationships for Patent
   Retrieval
 - Jianhan Zhu and John Tait:
   A Proposal for Chemical Information Retrieval Evaluation
 - Andreas Pesenhofer, Sonja Edler, Helmut Berger and
   Michael Dittenbach:
   Towards a Patent Taxonomy Integration and Interaction Framework
 - Hidetsugu Nanba, Atsushi Fujii, Makoto Iwayama
   and Taiichi Hashimoto:
   The Patent Mining Task in the Seventh NTCIR Workshop
 - Yuen-Hsien Tseng and Yi-Jen Wu:
   A Study of Search Tactics for Patentability Search - A Case
   Study on Patent Engineers
 - Kristine Atkinson: Toward a More Rational Patent Search Paradigm

* Posters:
We will also have a dedicated area for posters presenting late-breaking
research results and work-in-progress.

Registration
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Deadline for early-bird registration is August 22. Please see
http://www.cikm2008.org/registration.php for details.

Organization
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* General Chair
 - Prof. John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility (Austria)
* Workshop Organizers
 - Helmut Berger, Matrixware Information Services Gmbh (Austria)
 - Michael Dittenbach, Matrixware Information Services Gmbh (Austria)
 - Georg Sommer, Information Retrieval Facility (Austria)

Contact Information
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* Prof. John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility (Austria)
  john.tait[at]ir-facility.org
  Information Retrieval Facility, Eschenbachgasse 11
  A-1010 Vienna
  Phone: +43-1-585 73 61 - 53
  Web: http://www.ir-facility.org
* Georg Sommer, Information Retrieval Facility (Austria),
  georg.sommer[at]ir-facility.org
  Information Retrieval Facility, Eschenbachgasse 11
  A-1010 Vienna
  Phone: +43-1-585 73 61 - 42
  Web: http://www.ir-facility.org

We are looking forward to seeing you at PaIR'08, October 30, 2008 in
Napa Valley, California.


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