Abstract We take a look back at the conferences we attended in 2018. As every year, we try to cover a mix of small and large, academic and industry conferences, to get the pulse of our patent information industry, but also to make sure that developments in computer-based information processing are on our radar. The buzz around anything “AI” that we observed last year continues strongly. We report here on three conferences: the European Conference on Information Retrieval, Patent Information User Group conference, and the European Patent Office Patent Information Conference.

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2018年会议报告

摘要 我们回顾一下 2018 年参加的会议。与每年一样，我们尝试涵盖各种大小、学术和行业会议，以掌握我们专利信息行业的脉搏，同时也确保我们关注基于计算机的信息处理的发展。我们去年观察到的任何“人工智能”的嗡嗡声仍在继续。我们在此报告三个会议：欧洲信息检索会议、专利信息用户组会议和欧洲专利局专利信息会议。