Topics

We solicit two types of papers: research papers and industry papers.

Suggested topics for research papers include, but are not limited to:

• Cross-lingual information retrieval (emphasis on Asian languages)
• Patent Classification
• Ontology-based Retrieval
• Information retrieval evaluation
• Evaluation frameworks
• Test collections
• Large-scale information retrieval experiments
• Parallel and distributed information retrieval
• Ranking strategies
• Query validation and query quality analysis
• Query expansion
• Interactive retrieval
• Session-based information retrieval
• User modeling
• Handling of noisy data (OCR/spelling/typing errors)
• XML retrieval

Industry papers shall present research challenges. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

• Patent search workflow
• Patent search strategies
• Information need of the patent researcher
• Shortcomings of current patent search tools
• Case studies
• Challenges in patent search
• Patent life cycle
• Quality of patent data