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ACM SIGIR 2000 WORKSHOP on PATENT RETRIEVAL
Athens, Greece
July 28, 2000
9:00 - 16:30
Online Proceedings

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

To foster research and development of the technology for patent search and retrieval by providing a forum in which researchers and practitioners from relevant communities can share their ideas, approaches, perspectives, and experiences from their work in progress.

BACKGROUND

The search and retrieval of patent and other Intellectual Property (IP) documents is important to the scientific, business, and law communities. In the past, much of the focus for patent and IP retrieval has been from the database community, and not from the Information Retrieval (IR) community. This is beginning to change as the unique semantic and syntactic characteristics of patents and other IP text documents are being addressed.

In addition to the retrieval of documents, other areas of research and development include the extraction, usage and strategic analysis of the text documents, automatic summarization, classfication, and comparisons across related documents. A particular area of internationl interest is the access of patent and IP documents in a foreign language (i.e., what is termed cross-language or translingual document retrieval).

This workshop will bring together people interested in patent retrieval and in better access to patent documents. Participants will be from different communities including patent offices, patent vendors, and information retrieval researchers. The aim is to share ideas, approaches, perspectives, and experiences from their work in progress to ensure a thorough exploration of their common ground.


July 28, 2000
9:00-9:15 Opening
- MunKew Leong & Noriko Kando [slides]

9:15-9:40 SESSION 1: Existing systems for patent searching

- Munehisa Saito (Japan Patent Information Organization (JAPIO), Japan) "The Search System which uses "Japanese-English concordance table PATOLIS-e" [PDF] [slides]

09:40-10:40 SESSION 2: Research Issues in Patent Retrieval Systems 1 - Cross Language Information Retrieval

- Leo Sarasua & Guido Corremans (European Patent Office, Netherland) "Cross Lingual Issues in Patent Retrieval" [PDF]

- Masatoshi Fukui, Shigeto Higuchi, Youichi Nakatani, Masao Tanaka (Japan Patent Information Organization (JAPIO), Japan), Atushi Fujii*, Tetsuya Ishikawa (Univ. Lib & Info Science, Japan) "Applying Hybrid Query Translation Method to Japanese/English Cross-Language Patent Retrieval" [PDF] [slides]

(Break - 20 mins)

11:00-12:00 SESSION 3: Research Issues in Patent Retrieval Systems 2 - Ontology and Interaction

- Ray R. Larson*, Michael Buckland, Fredric Gey, Aitao Chen, Youngin Kim, Barbara Norgard, Jacek Purat (University of California, Berkeley, School of Information Management and Systems, USA) "The Entry Vocabulary Module Approach to Patent Search and Classification" [abst]

- A.W. McLean (Web Group, Canon Research Europe Ltd, UK) "Patent Space Visualisation for Patent Retrieval". [PDF]

12:00-13:00 SESSION 4. Research Issues in Patent Retrieval systems 3 - Ontology and Interaction

- MunKew Leong (BIGonthenet, Singapore) "Specialised Querying in Patent Retrieval". [PDF] [slides]

- Naomi Inoue, Kazunori Matsumoto, Keiichirou Hoashi, Kasuo Hashimoto (KDD R&D Laboratories, Inc., Japan) "Patent Retrieval System Using Document Filtering Techniques [PDF] [slides]

(Break for lunch - 90 mins)

14:30-15:30 SESSION 5. Evaluation of Patent Search Systems

- Noriko Kando (NII, Japan) "What We Shall Evaluate? -- Preliminary Discussion for the NTCIR Patent IR Challenge (PIC) Based on the Brainstorming with the Specialized Intermediaries in Patent Searching and Patent Attorneys" [PDF] [slides]

- Preben Hansen (SICS, Sweden & Tampere Univ., Finland); Kalervo Jaervelin (Tampere Univ., Finland) "The Information Seeking and Retrieval process at the Swedish Patent Office: Moving from Lab-based to real life work-tak environment" [html] [slides]

(Break - 20 mins)

15:50-16:30 Panel discussion: (Chair: MunKew Leong)

Panel members from speakers above, to talk on any of research issues, evaluation, or the future of patent information retrieval.

(16:30 End of workshop - everybody jump into the sea!)


Workshop Report - SIGIR FORUM, Vol.34, No.1, 2000, pp.28-30

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Mun-Kew Leong, BIGonthenet.com, chair
Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics (NII), chair
Mariko Iwasawa, University of Library and Information Science
Francois Paradis, CSIRO / NII
Paraic Sherridan, TextWise


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