Workshop programme is now available.
We are happy to announce Iryna Gurevych as a keynote speaker.
General Information:
PatentSemTech aims to establish a long-term collaboration and a two-way communication channel between the IP industry and academia from relevant fields such as natural-language processing (NLP), text and data mining (TDM) and semantic technologies (ST) in order to explore and transfer new knowledge, methods and technologies for the benefit of industrial applications as well as support research in applied sciences for the IP and neighbouring domains.
PatentSemTech'25 workshop will be held as a full-day onsite event in conjunction with SIGIR 2025 in Padua, Italy.
Important Dates:
- Submission deadline: April 30,
April 23,2025 - Acceptance notification: May 28,
May 21,2025 - SIGIR PatentSemTech2025 workshop: July 17, 2025
Iryna Gurevych: Keynote at PatentSemTech 2025
How to InterText? Elevating NLP to the cross-document level
While modern language models do a great job at finding documents, extracting information from them and generating naturally sounding language, the progress in helping humans read, connect, and make sense of interrelated long texts has been very much limited. Funded by the European Research Council, the InterText project brings natural language processing (NLP) forward by developing a general framework for modeling and analyzing fine-grained relationships between texts – intertextual relationships. This crucial milestone for AI would allow tracing the origin and evolution of texts and ideas and enable a new generation of AI for text work and critical reading. Using the scientific domain as a prototypical model of collaborative knowledge construction anchored in text, this talk will provide an overview of UKP Lab’s research demonstrating our intertextual approach to NLP in the scientific domain.
Biography
Iryna Gurevych is Professor of Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing in the Department of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany. She also is an adjunct professor at MBZUAI in Abu-Dhabi, UAE, and an affiliated professor at INSAIT in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is widely known for fundamental contributions to natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. Professor Gurevych is a past president of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the leading professional society in NLP. Her many accolades include being a Fellow of the ACL, an ELLIS Fellow, and the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant. Most recently, she has received the 2025 Milner award of the British Royal Society for her major contributions to NLP and artificial intelligence that combine deep understanding of human language and cognitive faculty with the latest paradigms in machine learning.
Link to the 2024 5th Workshop proceedings.
