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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>CLEF-IP 09 <BR>-----------------<BR>Evaluating
information retrieval techniques in the Intellectual Property
domain.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>The organizers of the newly established CLEF-IP
track would like to invite you to participate in the 2009 evaluation
campaign!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The new Intellectual Property track within the
Cross-Language Evaluation Forum has two main goals<BR>- the creation of a large
test collection of multi-lingual European patents<BR>- the evaluation of
retrieval techniques in the patents domain </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=349564713-24022009>T</SPAN>he
track will focus on the task of prior art search.<BR>Participation in the track
requires no manual relevance assessments. Participants are just invited to apply
their retrieval method of preference for a given set of topics and submit their
results. A subset of the resulting collection will be double-checked by
Intellectual Property search professionals.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The track will utilize a collection of >1M
patent documents in English French and German in XML format.<BR>For more
information and how to participate please visit </FONT><A
href="http://www.ir-facility.org/the_irf/clef-ip09-track"><FONT face=Arial
size=2>http://www.ir-facility.org/the_irf/clef-ip09-track</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2><BR><FONT face=Arial>The track is coordinated by:<BR>John
Tait, Information Retrieval Facility <BR>Giovanna Roda, Matrixware
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<DIV><BR><FONT face=Arial size=2>To subscribe or unsubscribe to the CLEF-IP
mailing list via the World Wide Web, visit<BR> </FONT><A
href="http://mail.ir-facility.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clef-ip"><FONT
face=Arial
size=2>http://mail.ir-facility.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/clef-ip</FONT></A><FONT
face=Arial size=2> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help'
to </FONT><A href="mailto:clef-ip-request@ir-facility.org"><FONT
face=Arial size=2>clef-ip-request@ir-facility.org</FONT></A><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=349564713-24022009></SPAN><FONT face=Arial>.
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<DIV><FONT size=+0><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>You can reach the person
managing the list at <SPAN class=349564713-24022009><U><FONT
color=#0000ff>clef-ip</FONT></U></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT><A
href="mailto:trec-chem-owner@ir-facility.org"><FONT
face=Arial>-owner@ir-facility.org</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>---<BR>Giovanna Roda<BR>Matrixware Information
Services <BR>Lehargasse 11/8, 1060 Vienna,
Austria, Europe</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=291435513-24022009></SPAN><FONT face=Arial>g<SPAN
class=291435513-24022009>.roda at matrixware.com</SPAN><BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.matrixware.com/"><FONT
face=Arial>www.matrixware.com</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial>
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