A call for papers — with submission deadline of 30 June 2010 — has been issued for PaIR 2010: The 3rd International Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval, to be held 26 October 2010, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The workshop is collocated with CIKM 2010: The 19th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.
According to the call, PaIR 2010 “solicits two types of papers: ‘research/solutions’ and ‘IP/needs’ papers.”
“Research/solutions” papers are invited on the following topics:
- “Cross-lingual information retrieval
- Patent classification
- Ontology-based retrieval
- Latent Semantic Analysis
- Information retrieval evaluation
- Evaluation frameworks
- Test collections
- Large-scale information retrieval experiments
- Parallel and distributed information retrieval
- Ranking strategies
- Query validation and query quality analysis
- Query expansion
- Interactive retrieval
- Session-based information retrieval
- User modeling
- Handling of noisy data (OCR/spelling/typing errors)
- XML retrieval
- NLP / Natural Language Processing”
“IP/needs” papers, which “shall present research challenges,” are invited on the following topics:
- “Patent search workflow
- Patent search strategies
- Information need of the patent researcher
- Shortcomings of current patent search tools
- Case studies
- Challenges in patent search
- Patent life cycle
- Quality of patent data”
For more information, please see the call for papers.
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