AsPIRe'10 CALL FOR PAPERS

The 1st International Workshop on Advances in Patent Information Retrieval
(AsPIRe'10) will be collocated with the ECIR 2010 (European Conference on
Information Retrieval).

Patent Information Retrieval is a cross cutting research area as it contains
domains such as multilingual information retrieval, image processing and
retrieval, language processing, and text categorization, clustering and
mining. The main goal of the workshop is to gather scientists from these
areas together to foster the collaboration among such interdisciplinary
areas and spark discussions on open topics related to Information Retrieval
and Machine Translation in the Intellectual Property domain in order to
advance the current state-of-the-art of patent search tools.

For more information, see the workshop webpage:
http://www.ir-facility.org/events/irf-workshops/aspire201910

Further information on the ECIR is here:
http://kmi.open.ac.uk/events/ecir2010

We plan to make a subset of 440,000 documents of the MAREC patent data
corpus available soon. Participants are encouraged to apply the techniques
they develop to this dataset, where possible. This will allow the results of
the presented techniques applied to the same dataset to be compared. More
information on MAREC is here:
http://www.ir-facility.org/services/data/matrixware-research-collection

TOPICS:
Research papers should be on one or more of the following topics, with an
emphasis on application to the Intellectual Property (Patent) domain:
* Semantic Annotation of Patents
* Patent Claim Analysis
* Ontology Engineering
* Corpus Analysis
* Patent Categorization
* Clustering and Visualization
* Patent Image Search
* Bibliographic Search, Network Analysis
* Machine Translation
* Cross-lingual Information Retrieval
* Digital Libraries for Patent Literature
* Case Studies
* Challenges in Patent Search
* Information Need of the Patent Searcher

Instructions for paper submission will appear on the website soon.

IMPORTANT DATES:
15.01.2010: Paper Submission Deadline
05.02.2010: Notification of Acceptance
15.02.2010: Camera ready papers are due
28.03.2010: Workshop

GENERAL CHAIR:
Allan Hanbury, Information Retrieval Facility, Austria

ORGANISING CHAIRS:
Helmut Berger, Matrixware Information Services GmbH, Austria Veronika Zenz,
Matrixware Information Services GmbH, Austria

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (preliminary):
Giambattista Amati, Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Italy
Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield, UK
Barrou Diallo, European Patent Office, the Netherlands
Michael Dittenbach,Matrixware Information Services GmbH, Austria
Andreas Eisele, Saarland University & DFKI GmbH, Germany
Karl Froeschl, University of Vienna, Austria
Steffen Koch, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Josep L. Larriba-Pey, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark
Josep Llados, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Mihai Lupu, Information Retrieval Facility, Austria
Thomas Mandl, University of Hildesheim, Germany
Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Giovanna Roda, Matrixware Information Services GmbH, Austria
Oscar Täckström, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden
Stefanos Vrochidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece



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Allan Hanbury
Senior Scientist

Information Retrieval Facility
Operngasse 20b, A-1040 Vienna
Phone: +43 1 236 94 74 -6042
Mobile: + 43 664 8845 3607
a.hanbury@ir-facility.org
www.ir-facility.org