[InetBib] CfP 1st International Workshop on Patent Mining and its Applications

[Christa Womser-Hacker <womser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Call for Papers
First International Workshop on Patent Mining and Its Applications
(IPaMin 2014)
October 6-7, 2014
University of Hildesheim, Germany
http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/konvens2014/pages/IPaMin Call for Papers.html
The importance of exploiting knowledge in patents is constantly 
increasing. A large percentage of the most recent technical knowledge is 
only available in patent documents. Patent mining and the automatic 
analysis of large numbers of patents are necessary to identify trends in 
research and development. Applications include the identification of 
potential areas of investment, avoiding duplicating efforts, competitor 
analysis, and patent landscape mapping.
Advanced methods in information technology bear much potential for 
improving access to patents and to gain knowledge form patents.
This workshop wants to identify current innovative research in patent 
mining and build a map of research and needs. Another topic will be the 
discussion about evaluation approaches to patent mining. Several 
important initiatives have dealt with information retrieval from patents 
(NTCIR, CLEF-IP, TREC Chem). However, there are few benchmarks for 
evaluating applications with vaguely defined goals as involved in patent 
mining.
Some of the basic assumptions for information retrieval and text mining 
need to be revisited for patent mining. Due to the nature of patent 
documents, innovative approaches need to be taken for automatic analysis 
of patents and in general for big data analytics of scientific content.
Topics include but are not limited to:
.Patent Analytics
.Information extraction from patents
.Modeling of patent documents
.Temporal modelling based on patents
.Trend mining
.Prescriptive Analytics
.Approaches to deal with patent terminology
.Visualization to support human mining tasks
.User interfaces for patent mining
.Issues on developing benchmarks for patent mining
.Lifecycle models of technology applied to mining approaches
.Advanced Information Retrieval Approaches using Patent Analytics
.Large scale big data analytics on scientific texts which could be 
applied to patents
.Innovative products for patent mining
.Complex Event Processing
.Data management for patent mining
.Applications based on data mining and analytics

The workshop provides a forum for scientific discussion and the exchange 
of ideas. The workshop wants to attract both practitioners from industry 
as well as academic researchers. A practical track for the presentation 
of innovative products, structured information needs or best practice in 
patent mining are also welcome.
Co-Located Event
The International Workshop on Patent Mining will be a Satellite Event of 
KONVENS, the Conference on Natural Language Processing ("Konferenz zur 
Verarbeitung Natürlicher Sprache"). KONVENS seeks to offer a broad 
perspective on current research and developments within the 
interdisciplinary field of natural language processing. It provides a 
forum for researchers from all disciplines relevant to this field of 
research to present their work.
http://www.uni-hildesheim.de/konvens2014

Program Chairs:
.Hanmin Jung, Korean Institute of Science and Technology Information 
(KISTI) Korea
.Thomas Mandl, Institute of Information Science and Language Technology, 
University of Hildesheim, Germany
.Sa-kwang Song, Korean Institute of Science and Technology Information 
(KISTI) Korea
.Christa Womser-Hacker, University of Hildesheim, Germany
.Shuo Xu, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China 
(ISTIC), China
.Lijun Zhu, Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China 
(ISTIC), China
Deadlines:
.Submissions 1. July 2014
.Notification 1. August 2014
.Camera Ready Contributions 30. August 2014
Types of Submissions:
.Full Papers (6 pages)
.Short Papers (2-4 pages): Position papers or work in progress
.Demonstration (2 pages): Presentation of systems or prototypes
Submissions need to be made in English and should be in PDF format
Submissions:
    https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ipamin2014
    Submissions need to follow the ACM format.


--
Prof. Dr. Christa Womser-Hacker
Universität Hildesheim
Institut für Informationwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie
Marienburger Platz 22
D-31141 Hildesheim

Tel. 05121 883 30 302
Fax. 05121 883 30 301

womser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.uni-hildesheim.de/~womser


--
http://www.inetbib.de