The overall aim of the PatentSemTech workshop and follow-up events is to establish a long-term collaboration and a two-way communication channel between the IP industry and academia from relevant fields such as natural-language processing (NLP), text and data mining (TDM) and semantic technologies (ST) in order to explore and transfer new knowledge, methods and technologies for the benefit of industrial applications as well as support research in applied sciences for the IP and neighbouring domains.

Submission Guidelines

The papers need to be original and not submitted or accepted for publication in any other workshop, conference, or journal. Authors must submit their manuscripts (in PDF) via EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patentsemtech2019).

• Full [10 pages] and short research papers [6 pages] describing new and unpublished scientific work.
• Industrial talks [up to 2 pages] describing applications and use cases of potential industrial impact.
• Posters and demos [4 pages] describing briefly case studies of patent text mining and analytics.

Please format your pdf submissions using this template. You can use either the latex template or the word template.

List of Topics

Specifically, we encourage submissions dealing with the following topics:

• Text Mining and Text Retrieval with scientific-technical information e.g. patents, legal data, bio-medical information, etc.
  • Terminology detection
  • Entity Extraction
• New machine Learning Methods e.g. Deep Learning applied to scientific-technical information for creating added values e.g. embeddings for query expansion, terminology extraction, etc.
  • Patent classification e.g. IPC/CPC class prediction for given patent documents using a knowledge graph
• Applications and Methods for linking valuable semantic information to patent data from external knowledge sources e.g. Linked Open Data
• Methods and applications for mining and analysing large-amounts of scientific-technical information (big data analytics)
• Methods for technology analysis with patent information, e.g. patent landscaping, hotspot analysis, technology trend analysis, etc.
• Semantic enrichment of patent texts, e.g. applying ML/DL for semantic entity recognition in patent texts
• Visual user interface concepts for exploring patent data and patent retrieval results

Links and a short description of existing patent text mining resources will be presented on the workshops web page. 

Committees

Program Committee

The programm commitee of the workshop comprises reviewers from the academics as well as the industry in order to give feedback and evaluate submitted contributions from scientific as well as industrial point of view, e.g. from the IP domain.

• Simone Ponzetto, University of Mannheim, Germany
• Hans-Peter Zorn, inovex Gmbh, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Catherine Faron Zucker, University of Nice, France
• Ron Daniel, Elsevier Labs, USA
• Paul Groth, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Natterer Michael, Dennemeyer Octimine GmbH, Munich, Germany
• Kobkaew Opasjumruskit, German Aerospace Center, Jena, Germany
• Shariq Bashir, University of Islamabad, Pakistan
• Michail Salampasis, Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Siegfried Handschuh, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
• Agata Filipowska, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
• Rene Hackl-Sommer, FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany
• Richard Eckart de Castilho, TU Darmstadt, Germany
• Joni Sayeler, Uppdragshuset Sverige AB, Sweden
• Anna Malmberg, Combitech, Sweden
• Christoph Hewel, Patent Attorney at Cabinet Beau de Loménie, France
• Sebastian Pado, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• Mustafa Sofean, FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany
• Parvaz Mahdabi, Swisscom, Switzerland
• Wlodek Zadrozny, UNC Charlotte, USA
• Bharathi Raja Chakravarthi, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, National University of Ireland, Galway
• Gabriela Ferraro, Australian National University, Australia

Organizing committee

• Hidir Aras, FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany
• Lei Zhang, FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany
• Linda Andersson, TU Vienna / Artificial Researcher - IT, Austria
• Florina Piroi, TU Vienna / Artificial Researcher - IT, Austria
• Allan Hanbury, TU Vienna, Austria
• Mihai Lupu, Studio Data Science -Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria

Invited Speakers

• Adjunct Prof. Mr Anthony Trippe - Managing Director of Patinformatics, LLC. Patinformatics 

Publication

All accepted long and short papers will be invited to be published in a special issue in World Patent Information (WPI) journal in the format provided by Elsevier.

Venue

The workshop will be held in Karlsruhe on 12th of September. The workshop will be part of the Semantics 2019 Conference, where you also can find details about the conference and workshop registration (early bird deadline 13th of August 2019).

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to hidir.aras@fiz-karlsruhe.de and andersson@ifs.tuwien.ac.at

Contributors

Dennemeyer Octimine GmbH, KNIME GmbH, EPO, WPI, FIZ Karlsruhe, Artificial Researcher - IT and others.