Videos and Presentations
"IP for IR" Tutorial
- George Shreck, Product Manager, Landon IP
Biography
- Kristian Luoto, Senior IPR Manager, Nokia Siemens Networks
"IR for IP" Tutorial
- Thomas Roelleke, Lecturer, Computer Science, Queen Mary University, London
- Erik Graf, Research Student, Department of Computing, University of Glasgow
Opening Sessions
- Ludovit Garzik, Managing Director of the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development
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- John Tait, Chief Scientific Officer, IRF
Session 1 - Multilinguality - Asian and Cyrillic Languages
- Sandra Bailly, Senior Information Scientist, Procter & Gamble
- Jian-Yun Nie, Professor, University of Montreal
Q & A
- Chair: Noriko Kando, Professor, National Institute of Informatics (NII)
- Benjamin T'sou, Director, Language Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong
- Kamil Milushev, IP Coordinator, Tashkent Chemical Technological Institute
No video available as Kamil Milushev could not attend the IRFS2008.
- Jaques Savoy, Professor, Institut d´Informatique, University of Neuchatel
Q & A
- Chair: Benjamin T'sou, Director, Language Information Sciences Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong
Session 2 - Annotations and Ontologies in the Context of Patent Retrieval
- Pierre Buffet, Executive Vice President, Questel
- Eric Gaussier, Professor, LIG (Lab. d´Informatique de Grenoble), Universite Joseph Fourier
Q & A
- Chair: Wolfgang Thielemann, Head of Information Retrieval and Analysis, Bayer Healthcare AG
Session 3 - Matrixware Contribution: Alexandria and Leonardo
- Mike Baycrof, CEO, Fairview Research
- Rick Vieir, VP Business Development, Matrixware
Q & A
- Chair: Christoph Haxel, Global Head of Sales and Marketing, Matrixware
Session 4 - Interfacing (Collaborative Assessment of Relevance)
- Keith Dilley, Director IP Processes & Tools Development, GE Corporate
- Hideo Joho, Research Assistant, Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow
Q & A
- Chair: Torsten Rambusch, Head Information Science, Roche Diagnostics GmbH
Session 5 - Non-Text Retrieval
- Monika Hanel, Information Services Manager, Agfa Graphics NV
- Stefanos Vrochidis, Electrical and Computer Engineer, Informatics and Telematics Institute
Q & A
- Chair: Gerard Ypma, Senior Patent Searcher, ASML Netherlands BV
Session 6 - Project Presentations
- Valentin Tablan, Research Fellow, University of Sheffield
- Cornelis Koster, Professor, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
- Leif Azzopardi, Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
Panel Q & A
- Chair: John Tait, Chief Scientific Officer, IRF
Session 7 - Tuning IR - IP Collaboration through Patent Search Evaluation Panel
- Noriko Kand, Professor, National Institute of Informatics (NII, Japan)
- Ellen Voorhees, Manager Retrieval Group, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Maristella Agost, Professor, University of Padua
Q & A
- Chair: John Tait, Chief Scientific Officer, IRF
Wrap-up Sessions
- Mark Sanderson
Reader in Information Retrieval, University of Sheffield
- Stephen Adam, Managing Director, Magister Ltd
Closing Speech
- Francisco Webber, Chairman of the Executive Board, IRF
CEO , Matrixware Information Services GmbH