IRFS 2011 - IRFS '11 Information Retrieval Facility Symposium 2011

After a discovery phase, during which the patent information professionals explained their needs and showed the limits of the systems they work with, the last IRF Symposium in June 2010 marked the start of the integration phase: Information retrieval scientists have started to integrate these parameters in their research. In 2011, the IRF Symposium will demonstrate further examples of retrieval techniques developed to better solve the information professionals’ needs in 3 specific fields: User Interfaces, Image Retrieval and Machine Translation.

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The IRF Symposium 2011 is placed under the sign of collaboration and results: Information retrieval researchers will apply their systems to a standardized patent collection and patent searchers will evaluate the results. The past Symposium has shown the need for the involvement of a third party, the technology implementers, who can take on the results to develop practical tools. The IRF Symposium 2011 will offer them this opportunity.