Patent Information Retrieval
Bio:
Mihai obtained his PhD degree under the Singapore-MIT Alliance at the National University of Singapore, where he researched data retrieval in peer-to-peer networks. Now, his research interests continue in the area of information retrieval, with emphasis on patent retrieval and evaluation of domain-specific IR methods. Between 2009 and 2011, he has been the co-organizer of the TREC-CHEM evaluation campaign and the PaIR workshop series. He is co-editor of the recent book on Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval (Springer, Information Retrieval Series, 2011)
He can be contacted at:
Vienna University of Technology
lupu@ifs.tuwien.ac.at
Summary:
The workshop addresses both junior and senior researchers, interested in document representation and semi-structured data, including multimodal data; document and query analysis; users and interactive IR; retrieval models and ranking; filtering and recommendations; scalability of search engines; social media; IR evaluation. All of these aspects of the general study of Information Retrieval will be covered for the particular case of the patent domain.
The tutorial aims to provide the IR researchers with an understanding of how the patent system works, the challenges that patent searchers face in using the existing tools and in adopting new methods developed in academia.
At the same time, the tutorial will inform the IR researcher about the unique opportunities that the patent domain provides: a large amount of multi-lingual and multi-modal documents, the widest possible span of covered domains, a highly annotated corpus and, very importantly, relevance judgments created by experts in the fields and recorded electronically in the documents.
The combination of these two objectives leads to the main purpose of the
tutorial: to create awareness and to encourage more emphasis on the patent domain in the IR community. The website http://mihailupu.net/patentTutorial provides details on how the tutorial covers the topics of the SIGIR conference.