Conferences reports from 2018
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The European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) March 2018 (ML)
The ECIR is the primary academic venue for information retrieval in Europe. Additionally to the main, academic, programme, it also organizes an Industry Day, where members of the industry present their challenges and successes, in relation to search technology, covering text, but also data in general.
In that sense, the keynote of the 2018 edition of the ECIR Industry Day was given by Radim Řehůřekis, creator of the Gensim [1] Python library for topic modelling and information retrieval. He
The annual conference of the Patent Information User Group (PIUG) May 2018 (ML)
Many of the readers of this Journal are more familiar with the PIUG Annual Conference than me, as this was the first time I had the pleasure to attend this event. It was also a special occasion for all attendees, as it was the 30th anniversary of the PIUG.
As for the 25th and the 20th anniversaries, the PIUG Annual Conference returned to Virginia, USA, in close proximity to the USPTO offices.
The keynote of the first day was also provided by Joseph Matal, formerly performing the roles of Under
The European Patent Office Patent Information Conference, Brussels, Belgium, November 2018 (JL)
This year there were several anniversaries to be celebrated – 40 years of INPADOC, 20 years of espacenet, and 10 years of (the concept for) the EPO's federated register – all vitally important for patent information users and the wider patent information industry and supply chain. And 2018 is also a year 1 - the first year of the new Presidency of the EPO for António Campinos. We eagerly awaited his speech, to find out about his commitment to patent information. We were not disappointed –
Jane List is editor in chief of World Patent Information. She runs her own business, Extract Information Limited (EIL) which she founded in 2013. EIL provides IP information consultancy, search, and training in patent searching and commercial IP matters through the Cambridge Information and IP Meeting, which she co-founded in 2015. Jane has qualifications in Chemistry, Information Science and Intellectual Property Law and interests in patent information retrieval, image retrieval, patent
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Jane List is editor in chief of World Patent Information. She runs her own business, Extract Information Limited (EIL) which she founded in 2013. EIL provides IP information consultancy, search, and training in patent searching and commercial IP matters through the Cambridge Information and IP Meeting, which she co-founded in 2015. Jane has qualifications in Chemistry, Information Science and Intellectual Property Law and interests in patent information retrieval, image retrieval, patent analytics and IP education.
Dr Mihai Lupu is Studio Director of the Research Studio Data Science, of the Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft. He is the Coordinator of the Lighthouse project of the Federal Ministry of Infrastructure, Innovation, and Technology, as well as Scientific Coordinator of the recently granted H2020 Safe-DEED Research and Innovation Action. Mihai Lupu has over 10 years of experience in Search Technologies, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, with over 100 publications in these fields. He is also Associate Editor of World Patent Information Journal. Previously, Mihai Lupu has been Area Chair of the Intl. Conference of Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), programme chair of Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) and the Information Retrieval Facility Conference (IRFC) and organiser of the Patent Information Retrieval (PaIR) series of workshops, as well as the Intl. Keystone Training School.