The 1st Symposium on Patent Information Processing

The First Symposium on Patent Information Processing by the AAMT/Japio Patent Translation Study Group

-- Symposium theme --

Patent information is one of the major application areas of information processing. Recently, it has increasingly drawn worldwide attention. This symposium aims to foster research and development of the technology for patent information processing by providing a forum in which researchers, practitioners and government people can exchange their ideas, approaches, perspectives, experiences and policies from their work in progress. The symposium will consist of a keynote speech, three invited talks and presentation of 10 submitted papers.

Date: December 10(Fri), 2010 10:00-17:30

Venue: Faculty of Engineering Bldg.11, University of Tokyo Hongo Campus

 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

[map] Faculty of Engineering Bldg.11

Hosted by AAMT/Japio Patent Translation Study Group

Program　

               Keynote Speech/Invited Talk summaryPDF：84KB

Topics and speakers are to be announced soon.

10:00-10:05 Organizer's address
   Mr. Toshimichi Moriya, Senior Managing Director, Japio

10:05-10:45 Keynote Speech
NLP for Patent Documents and Fine-Grained Information AccessPDF：1.08MB
   Prof. Jun'ichi Tsujii, 
   President of the AAMT/Japio Special Interest Group of Patent Translation

10:45-11:15 Invited Talk
Current Situation and Future Vision of Machine Translation in Japan Patent Office
   PDF：4.13MB
   Mr. Teruo Okazaki, Deputy Director of Information Dissemination and Policy Division, 
   General Affairs Department, Japan Patent Office:

11:15-12:00 Invited Talk
CPIC's MT Development: Current Status and Future DirectionsPDF：950KB
   Mr. Wang Dan, Director of Information Processing Dept., CPIC
   (China Patent Information Center) :

12:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-13:45 Invited Talk
Current Status of Korea’s Machine Translation for Patent Domain UsersPDF：3.48MB
   Ms. Minah Kim, Director, Global Division, Siriussoft Corporation

13:45-15:25 Session 1 (Regular talks 1-5)
See the following “Session Program”.

15:25-15:45 Break

15:45-17:25 Session 2 (Regular talks 6-10)

17:25-17:30 Closing Remark

Session program

[Session 1]
1.Integrated Patent Creating System by using Patent Markup Language (in 
 Japanese)PDF：953KB
     Hidekazu Tanigawa, Toshinori Watanabe, Hikaru Masumitsu (IRD Patent Office), 
    Akihiro Shinmori, Shinya Takagi (INTEC Systems Institute Inc.), and Hidetsugu 
    Nanba (Hiroshima City University)

2.Improvement and Integration of Natural Language Processing Technologies for 
 Reading Support of “Scope of Claims” (in Japanese)PDF：1.04MB
     Akihiro Shinmori and Shinya Takagi (INTEC Systems Institute Inc.)

3.Quantitative Evaluation and Statistical Analysis of Patent Quality using Machine 
 Learning (in Japanese)PDF：917KB
     Shohei Hido1, Takashi Imamichi1, Shoko Suzuki1, Rikiya Takahashi1, Yusuke 
    Kanehira2, Rinju Yohda2, Akira Tajima1, Takeshi Ueno2, and Toshiya Watanabe3
    (1:IBM Research - Tokyo; 2:Intellectual Property Law Department, IBM Japan Ltd.; 
    3:Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo)

4.Extracting judicial information from legal proceedings and analyzing IP lawsuits 
 (in Japanese)PDF：766KB
     Hirofumi Nonaka, Hiroyuki Sakai, and Shigeru Masuyama (Toyohashi University 
    of Technology)

5.Automatic generation of Effect-Technology type patentmaps by using Natural 
 Language processing (in Japanese)PDF：964KB
     Shigeru Masuyama, Hirofumi Nonaka, Hiroki Sakaji, Akio Kobayashi, Yusuke 
    Suzuki, Takahisa Ota, and Hiroyuki Sakai (Toyohashi University of Technology)

[Session 2]
6.Statistical Machine Translation with TerminologyPDF：565KB
     Tsuyoshi Okita and Andy Way (Dublin City University CNGL/School of 
    Computing)

7.Patent Translation using Rule Based Machine Translation with Statistical 
 Machine Translation (in Japanese)PDF：723KB
     Jin’ichi Murakami and Masato Tokuhisa (Tottori University)

8.A Multi-language Patent Retrieval System (Atari-kun) (in Japanese)PDF：0.98MB
     Hiroshi Kameya (Natural Language Processing Technology, SunFlare Co., Ltd.)

9.Compiling the dictionary of English rhetorical collocations and complex 
 prepositions (in Japanese)PDF：786KB
     Masashi Saraki (Nihon University) and Katsuo Koga (Cross Language Inc.)

10.Proposal for Practical Implementation of Translation Software from Translator of 
  Patent Specification (in Japanese)PDF：817KB
     Kiyoshi Kikkawa (Patent Translator)

　 The symposium was organized by AAMT/Japio Patent Translation Study Group. See the PDF file below for the Call for Participation details.

• Call for Participation to The First Symposium on Patent Information ProcessingPDF：68KB

Contacts:

　　　[venue information]
　　　　Yoshiaki Murakami (NAVIX Co.,Ltd.)
　　　　　TEL: 03-3493-1691 (Int'l: +81-3-3493-1691)
　　　　　FAX: 03-3493-1690 (Int'l: +81-3-3493-1690)
　　　　　Mail to: murakmy(AT)navix.jp  (Replace (AT) with @.)

　　　[program information]
　　　　Takashi Ninomiya (Assoc. Prof. of Ehime University, Japan)
　　　　　Mail to: ninomiya(AT)cs.ehime-u.ac.jp  (Replace (AT) with @.)
　　　　Takashi Tsunakawa (Scientific Researcher of Shizuoka University, Japan)
　　　　　Mail to: tuna(AT)inf.shizuoka.ac.jp  (Replace (AT) with @.)