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SUMMARY:Patent Search: a challenging problem for IR and NL - John Tait - T
 he Information Retrieval Facility\, Vienna
DTSTART:20101022T110000Z
DTEND:20101022T120000Z
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CONTACT:Thomas Lippincott
DESCRIPTION:To obtain a valid and defensible patent one must show that it 
 describes an idea which has not been previously been publicly disclosed. T
 he patent system is one of the underpinings of modern industry in many fie
 lds\, allowing economic exploitation of the results of research and develo
 pment\, including producing tradable values\, and is therefore of enormous
  economic importance.\n\nA critical part of determining the value of a pat
 ent is to determine whether it describes real novelty: this a very complex
  search problem including cross-linguality\, problems of vocabulary betwee
 n different domains\, wicked problems like patent obfuscation and so on.\n
 \nThe talk will outline current patent search practice and problems\, focu
 sing on the challenges for natural language processing and information ret
 rieval. It will then go on to discuss some of the activities of the Inform
 ation Retrieval Facility (a Vienna-based not-for-profit organisation which
  has focussed principally on patent retrieval to date)\, especially those 
 involving making patent collections available to researchers\, and evaluat
 ion of the effectiveness of patent search tools.
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory
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