The PatentSemTech2025 workshop, co-located with SIGIR 2025 (https://sigir2025.dei.unipd.it/) in Padua, Italy, aims to bring together deep learning, natural language processing (NLP), and patent mining, analysis, and retrieval. As a forum for researchers and practitioners from the patent domain, we are interested in all kinds of insights from the intellectual property (IP) domain.
Workshop website: http://ifs.tuwien.ac.at/patentsemtech/
Important Dates =============== Submission deadline: April 23, 2025 Notification: May 21, 2025 SIGIR PatentSemTech2025 workshop: July 17, 2025
Topics of Interest ================== We encourage submissions of high quality research papers on all topics related to patents. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
+ Information retrieval, text mining, machine learning, large language models (LLMs), ... applied to patents, in particular for: - Representation learning - Multi-modal retrieval and analysis - Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) - Application of LLMs - Large language model pre-training and fine-tuning - Explainability and interpretation - Query expansion / rewriting - Clustering and classification - Recommendation - IPC/CPC prediction - Trend detection - Entity extraction - Linking semantic information - Integrating external knowledge sources - Patent landscaping - Hot spot / White spot analysis - Technology trend analysis - Visual user interface concepts - Metadata and citation analysis - Evaluation, benchmarks, and metrics
Call for Contributions ====================== We solicit two types of submissions from both, industry and academia: full papers and short papers. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two program committee members and evaluated based on innovativeness, novelty, interestingness, impact and fit to the workshop's topics.
+ For full papers we solicit contributions that present novel and mature research work. + For short papers we solicit contributions that present research ideas, demos, case studies, and system descriptions.
Submission Guidelines ===================== Submissions must be in English as PDF and making use of the CEUR two-column conference format. The LaTeX files for the new CEURART style are available as Overleaf template: https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-wo... and as downloadable ZIP file https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip. Please use the "twocolumn" option.
Submissions should have at most 8 (full) or 4 (short) pages (plus unlimited references). Submissions should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=patentsemtech2025.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for, and present the work in person at the workshop.
Publication =========== Accepted papers will be published as CEUR proceedings. Selected contributions will be invited to submit extended, full papers to Elsevier’s World Patent Information (WPI) journal: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/world-patent-information/
Organizers ========== Ralf Krestel (ZBW & CAU Kiel, Germany), Hidir Aras (FIZ Karlsruhe, Germany), Linda Andersson (Artificial Researcher, Austria), Florina Piroi (Data Science Studio, RSA FG, Austria), Allan Hanbury (TU Wien, Austria), Dean Alderucci (CMU, USA)
All questions about submissions should be emailed to: rkr@informatik.uni-kiel.de and hidir.aras@fiz-karlsruhe.de.