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Organizers

• Makoto Iwayama (Tokyo Institute of Technology / Hitachi Ltd.)
• Atsushi Fujii (University of Library and Information Science / CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation)
• Akihiko Takano (National Institute of Informatics)

Contact

• ML for organizers: ntcadm-patent
• ML for those who are interested in the task: ntc-patent

Data used

• Japanese patents: 1998-1999
• Japio patent abstracts: 1995-1999
• Patent Abstracts of Japan (English translations for Japio patent abstracts): 1995-1999
• Patolis test collection (34 search topics for Japanese patents and relevance assessment)
• Newspaper articles (Japanese/English)

Task Overview

• main task
  • retrieve patents in response to J/E newspaper articles associated with technology and commercial products (cross-language cross-DB retrieval)
  • for each search topic (i.e., either a newspaper article or patent), participants submit a list of retrieved patents and passages associated with the topic.
  • recall/precision-based and passage-based measures are used for evaluation
• optional task
  • Any research reports are invited on patent processing using the above data, including, but not limited to: generating patent maps, paraphrasing claims, aligning claims and examples, summarization for patents, clustering patents.
  • Participants who are interested in a specific task submit a brief description for their proposal.
  • Task descriptions proposed so far:
    • TIT team
    • CRL team

Schedule

• 2001.10.16: sample document data release
• 2001.11.01: complete document data release

Main Task

dry run

• 2001.11.16: search topics for the dry run release
• 2001.11.30: submission deadline for the dry run retrieval results
• 2002.01.31: dry run evaluation results release

formal run

• 2002.03.08: search topics for the main task release
• 2002.04.07: submission deadline for the main task retrieval results
• 2002.07.01: evaluation results for the main task releas

Optional Task

• 2002.01.31: proposals for optional task deadline
• 2002.02.01: public release of the task proposals
• 2002.05.01: application deadline (application for participating optional tasks)

Workshop Meeting

• 2002.08.20: deadline for camera-ready paper
• 2002.10.8-10: NTCIR Workshop 3 Meeting (at NII, Tokyo, Japan)

ACM SIGIR 2000 Workshop on Patent Retrieval - Online Proceedings

Last modified on March 1, 2002