Workshop Schedule (2025)


Time Event
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome Address
09:10 - 10:30

AWACopilot: A Secure On-Premise Large Language Model-Based Solution for Enhanced Patent Drafting

Mohamad Homam Mawaldi (Linnaeus University, Sweden), Zenun Kastrati, and Alexander Gustafsson

NER for Specialized Scientific Domains: Fine-Tuning on Patents for Plasma Technology and Battery Materials

Farag Saad (FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany), Hidir Aras, Markus Becker, and Carsten Becker-Willinger

PEDANTIC: A Dataset for the Automatic Examination of Definiteness in Patent Claims

Valentin Knappich (Bosch Center for AI and University of Augsburg, Germany), Annemarie Friedrich, Anna Hätty, and Simon Razniewski
10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30

Enhancing Patent Retrieval Using Automated Patent Summarization

Eleni Kamateri (International Hellenic University, Greece), Michail Salampasis, Renukswamy Chikkamath, Linda Andersson, and Markus Endres
11:30 - 12:30

Keynote: Iryna Gurevych (TU Darmstadt)

How to InterText? Elevating NLP to the cross-document level


12:30 - 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 - 14:30

Poster session (starting already during luch)

14:30 - 16:00

Efficient Patent Searching Using Graph Transformers (short paper)

Krzysztof Daniell (IPRally Technologies Oy, Finland), Igor Buzhinsky and Sebastian Björkqvist

Lightweight Out-of-Distribution Detection for Patent Classification in Non-Stationary Environments (short paper)

Ekaterina Kotliarova (IPRally Technologies Oy, Finland) and Sebastian Björkqvist

Hierarchical Multi-Positive Contrastive Learning for Patent Image Retrieval (short paper)

Kshitij Kavimandan (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Angelos Nalmpantis, Emma Beauxis-Aussalet, and Robert-Jan Sips

Exploring Patents Visually: An Interactive Search System for Multimodal Patent Image Search and Interpretation (short paper)

Sushil Awale (TIB - Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Germany), Eric Müller-Budack, Rahim Delaviz, and Ralph Ewerth

Automatic Construction of a Patent Term Thesaurus with Fine-Tuned ChatGPT (short paper)

Hidetsugu Nanba (Chuo University, Japan), Kohei Iwakuma, and Satoshi Fukuda
16:00 - 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30 - 17:50

Panel: Generative AI & Patent Analysis (20min Impuls statements + 60min discussion)

17:50 - 18:00

Wrap-up and conclusions