WORKSHOP on PATENT RETRIEVAL SIGIR 2000 Workshop Report Noriko Kando National institute of Inforrnatics (Nil) Tokyo, Japan Mun-Kew Leong BIGonthenet.com Singapore munkew.leong@BIGonthenet.com Noriko.Kando@nii.ac.jp URL: http:llwww.rd.nacsis.ac.jpl~ntcadmlsigir2OOOwsl 1 Introduction The goal of the workshop is to foster research and development of the technology for patent search and retrieval by providing a forum in which researchers and practitioners from relevant communities can share their ideas, approaches, perspectives, and experiences from their work in progress. Retrieving patent and other Intellectual Property (IP) documents is quite critical in various areas including science and technology, marketing, intellectual property right management, business and so on. In the past, much of the focus for patent and IP retrieval has been from the database community, and not from the Information Retrieval (IR) community. It is partly because the research and development in IR has tended to place emphasis on the generalized systems, which are effective for any kinds of documents and any kinds of queries. It is partly because the text genre of the patents has highly specific characteristics both in semantics and syntax of the text and has highly specialized ways of use by professional users. We assumed that this is the right time to organize
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