May 9, 2012
We have found some errors in the training data qrels. Please download them again.
Also, we have written down some clarifications about this task, if you have further questions please send them to us.
May 4, 2012
The training data for the Claims to Passage Task is available together with a description of the task.
April 29, 2012
We are finalizing the set of training data. We will make it available in the following days - together with specific guidelines.
You will find some detailed information about the task involving flowcharts here.
The test data will be made available beginning of June.
The corpus of patent documents is available to download.
Note that CLEF-IP 2012 uses the same patent documents as CLEF-IP 2011.
We are working on creating the training and the test topic sets, as well as the guidelines.
Some trailer-like information: for the passage retrieval we plan on involving XPath in the expected results.
We are also very close to finalizing the textual representation of the flow charts, representation later used in the evaluation of the task.
See here how to register to CLEF-IP 2012
The CLEF-IP track was launched in 2009 to investigate IR techniques for patent retrieval and was part of the CLEF 2009 evaluation campaign. In 2010 and 2011, the track was organized as a benchmarking activity of the CLEF 2010 and 2011conferences.
The project is supported by the PROMISE Network of Excellence (co-funded by the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission).
The image tasks are supported by the IMPEX project (funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency - FFG).