PaIR 2010 - 3rd International CIKM Workshop on Patent Information Retrieval

Scope of the Workshop

Patent Information Retrieval specialists in the 21st century face many challenges.
They must search very large numbers of documents in multiple languages, expressing complex technological concepts through sophisticated legal clauses. Despite a great deal of theoretical development in Information Retrieval techniques, advanced search tools for patent professionals are still in their infancy.

The objective of the workshop is to provide 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. We encourage IP professionals to present their special
information needs and IR&KM researchers to present relevant technical ideas, for example for high recall search in prior art searching.

We will also promote exchange of ideas on measuring the progress of system performance for retrieval tasks in the intellectual property domain.

To contact the workshop organisers, send an email to: pair-AT-ir-facility.org

The PaIR10 workshop is organised by