Submission

The Workshop Committee encourages the submission of high quality research and
industrial papers, which are not published or under consideration elsewhere, with special
emphasis on Patent Information Retrieval methods.

Research papers will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 members of the international
program committee.

Manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM camera-ready templates (both for MS
word and Latex) available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedingstemplates.
There are two styles on the website. Both the Strict Adherence to SIGS and the Tighter
Alternate style are allowed. Papers cannot exceed 8 pages in length. A website with
camera-ready instructions is available.

Full papers should be submitted in PDF format to
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pair09.

Selected papers will be invited to provide an extended version for a book.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to present their work in course of a poster
session. Note that these papers will be included in the proceedings.