Programme

The workshop will take place on November 6, 2009 from 8:30 am to 12:45 pm.

Keynotes

Fostering Patent Retrieval through Evaluation: The Evolution and Implications of NTCIR Patent Tasks - Prof. Noriko Kando (National Institute of Informatics, JP)

From Patent Information Retrieval to Semantic Data Mining - Ilkka Havukkala (Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand).

Paper presentations

A Case for Probabilistic Logic for Scalable Patent Retrieval - Iraklis A. Klampanos, Hany Azzam and Thomas Roelleke
 
Identification of Low/High Retrievable Patents using Content-Based Features - Shariq Bashir and Andreas Rauber 

Extracting Problem Solved Concepts from Patent Documents - Shahzad Tiwana and Ellis Horowitz 

Phrase-based Document Categorisation revisited - Cornelis H.A. Koster and Jean G. Beney 

A Design Rationale Representation Model Using Patent Documents - Ying Liu

Poster presentations

Interactive Constrained Clustering for Patent Document Set - Yusuke Sato and Makoto Iwayama 

Automatic Translation of Scholarly Terms into Patent Terms - Hidetsugu Nanba, Hideaki Kamaya, Toshiyuki Takezawa, Manabu Okumura, Akihiro Shinmori and Hidekazu Tanigawa 

Using normalised alignment scores to detect incorrectly aligned segments - Andreas Türk 

On the Role of Classification in Patent Invalidity Searches - Christopher Harris, Steven Foster, Robert Arens and Padmini Srinivasan - 

Patent Claim Decomposition for Improved Information Extraction - Peter Parapatics and Michael Dittenbach 

FindCite - Automatically Finding Prior Art Patents - Shahzad Tiwana and Ellis Horowitz