PaIR 2008: Napa Valley, California, USA

Information extraction

• Milan Agatonovic, Niraj Aswani, Kalina Bontcheva, Hamish Cunningham, Thomas Heitz, Yaoyong Li, Ian Roberts, Valentin Tablan:
  Large-scale, parallel automatic patent annotation. 1-8
  
• Aaron Chu, Shigeyuki Sakurai, Alfonso F. Cardenas:
  Automatic detection of treatment relationships for patent retrieval. 9-14
  

Patent classification and IR evaluation

• Jianhan Zhu, John Tait:
  A proposal for chemical information retrieval evaluation. 15-18
  
• Andreas Pesenhofer, Sonja Edler, Helmut Berger, Michael Dittenbach:
  Towards a patent taxonomy integration and interaction framework. 19-24
  

Patent search process

• Hidetsugu Nanba, Atsushi Fujii, Makoto Iwayama, Taiichi Hashimoto:
  The patent mining task in the seventh NTCIR workshop. 25-32
  
• Yuen-Hsien Tseng, Yi-Jen Wu:
  A study of search tactics for patentability search: a case study on patent engineers. 33-36
  
• Kristine H. Atkinson:
  Toward a more rational patent search paradigm. 37-40