PaIR 2008


 * CALL FOR PAPERS *
 * PaIR'08 *
 * 1st International CIKM Workshop on *
 * PATENT INFORMATION RETRIEVAL *
 * October 30, 2008, Napa Vallay *
 * http://www.ir-facility.org/events/pair08 *
 * October 30, 2008, Napa Vallay *
 * http://www.ir-facility.org/events/pair08 *
 * http://www.ir-facility.org/events/pair08 *
 * http://www.ir-facility.org/events/pair08 *

1.) Scope of the Workshop -

Patent Information Retrieval specialists in the 21st century face many challenges. They must search very large numbers of documents in multiple languages, expressing complex technological concepts through sophisticated legal clauses. Despite a great deal of theoretical development in Information Retrieval techniques, advanced search tools for patent professionals are still in their infancy.

The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum for Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management scientists as well as Patent Retrieval experts from industry to study the next generation of patent search tools. We encourage IP professionals to present their special information needs and IR&KM researchers to present relevant technical ideas, for example for high recall search in prior art searching. We will also promote exchange of ideas on measuring the progress of system performance for retrieval tasks in the intellectual property domain. The outcome of this workshop will be incorporated into a TREC track including patent search, which is planned for 2009.

2.) Topics of Interest -

We solicit two types of papers: research papers and industry papers. Suggested topics for research papers include, but are not limited to:


 * Information retrieval evaluation
 * 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
 * Cross-lingual information 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
 * Quality of patent data

3.) Submission Guidelines -- 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 Retrieval evaluation methods. Research papers will be (double blind) 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/proceedings-templates . 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=pair08. The accepted papers will be published in book form.

4.) Important Dates ---

Individual workshop papers due July 20, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2008 Camera ready August 15, 2008 (hard deadline for publication) Workshop date: October 30, 2008

5.) Organization --- General Chair John Tait, Information Retrieval Facility (Austria)

Workshop Organizers Helmut Berger, Matrixware Information Services Gmbh (Austria) Michael Dittenbach, Matrixware Information Services Gmbh (Austria) Georg Sommer, Information Retrieval Facility (Austria)

Program Committee Leif Azzopardi, University of Glasgow, (UK) Helmut Berger, Matrixware Information Services Gmbh (Austria) Jamie Callan, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) Yves Chiaramella, Joseph Fourier University (France) Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA) Barrou Diallo, Information Retrieval Facility (Austria) Michael Dittenbach, Matrixware Information Services Gmbh (Austria) Gerhard Fischer, Syngenta (Switzerland) Karl Fröschl, University of Vienna (Austria) Gerben Gieling, Synthon (The Netherlands) Birger Larsen, Royal School of Library and Information Science Copenhagen (Denmark) Dieter Merkl, Vienna University of Technolgy (Austria) Andreas Pesenhofer, Matrixware Information Services Gmbh (Austria) Daniel J. Phelps, DJP Information Consulting Services, LLC (USA) Andreas Rauber, Vienna University of Technolgy (Austria) Giovanna Roda, Matrixware Information Services Gmbh (Austria) Michael Schwantner, FIZ Karlsruhe (Germany) Georg Sommer, Information Retrieval Facility (Austria) A Min Tjoa, Vienna University of Technolgy (Austria) Jianhan Zhu, The Open University (UK)

6.) Contact Information -- Georg Sommer, Information Retrieval Facility (Austria), georg.sommer@ir-facility.org 	 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP