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<pre><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#262626"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></pre>
<pre><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#262626">C A L L F O R P A R T I C I P A T I O N</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></pre>
<pre><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#262626"> </span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#262626">5th IRF Conference, July 1-3, 2012, Vienna, Austria<a name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></pre>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#262626">The
<a href="http://www.mumia-network.eu/"><span style="color:#262626">MUMIA Cost Action</span></a> and the
<a href="http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/imp/"><span style="color:#262626">Vienna University of Technology</span></a> cordially invite you to attend the
<a href="http://www.ir-facility.org/irf-conference-2012">5<sup>th</sup> Information Retrieval Facility Conference (IRFC 2012).</a> The IRF Conference provides a multi-disciplinary, scientific forum that aims to bring experienced and young researchers into contact
with industry. Another emphasis is put on the applicability of IR solutions to real industry cases and to domain specific search. The event addresses a broad spectrum of search related disciplines, mainly in the domain of patent search, and is open to all
emerging and established practitioners and professionals, industry leaders, researchers, and students working in the field of information access research and development.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#262626">Keynote Speech from Prof</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#1F497D">.</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#262626">
Martin Kay<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#262626">We are proud to announce
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Kay">Prof. Martin Kay</a> from Stanford University
<a href="http://www.ir-facility.org/keynote-speaker">as the keynote speaker</a> in IRFC 2012. Prof. Martin Kay is Professor of Computational Linguistics at Stanford U. and Honorary Professor at Saarland U. He studied at Trinity College, Cambridge. Kay then
worked at Rand Corporation, the U. of Califormia at Irvine and XEROX PARC. Kay is one of the pioneers of computational linguistics and machine translation. He was responsible for introducing the notion of chart parsing in computational linguistics, and the
notion of unification in linguistics generally. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#262626">the Conference<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#262626">The conference takes place in Vienna, on the 2<sup>nd</sup> and 3<sup>rd</sup> of July and is hosted by the Vienna University of Technology.
More information is available from the conference website, <a href="http://www.ir-facility.org/irf-conference-2012">
<span style="color:#262626">http://www.ir-facility.org/irf-conference-2012</span></a>, including a schedule of paper sessions, industry track sessions and tutorials.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#262626">Two
<a href="http://www.ir-facility.org/tutorials"><span style="color:#262626">tutorials</span></a> will be held on 1<sup>st</sup> of July. The first tutorial is on “Patent Information Retrieval” by Dr. Allan Hanbury and Dr. Mihai Lupu and the second is about “Designing
the Search Experience” by Dr. Tony Russel-Rose. At the conference experts are invited representing technology providers and innovators offering services and products addressing the Intellectual Property intelligence needs of the technology sector such as CambridgeIP
(<a href="http://www.cambridgeip.com"><span style="color:#262626">www.cambridgeip.com</span></a>) and Treparel KMX (<a href="dhtmled0:treparel.com"><span style="color:#262626">treparel.com</span></a>) as well as experts representing technology providers for
Search Driven Solutions (<a href="dhtmled0:www.Findwise.com"><span style="color:#262626">www.Findwise.com</span></a>) and other patent experts and search professionals.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#262626">The venue is located in the heart of Vienna, with easy access to affordable accommodations, significant cultural attractions, and a variety
of transportation options. Registration discounts are provided to IRF/OCG/AARIT/PIUG members for full-conference registrations. See the conference website
<a href="http://www.ir-facility.org/venue-and-accomodation"><span style="color:#262626">Venue and Accommodation</span></a> and
<a href="http://www.ir-facility.org/registration"><span style="color:#262626">Registration</span></a> pages for more details.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DA">_______________________________________________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DA">Birger Larsen, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DA">Associate Professor, Research group leader, International Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DA">Information Systems and Interaction Design<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DA">Royal School of Library and Information Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DA">Birketinget 6, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DA">Tel. +45 3258 6066 / +45 32341520, Fax.
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DA">+45 32840201<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DA">Email:
</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:DA"><a href="mailto:blar@iva.dk"><span lang="EN-US">blar@iva.dk</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DA">, Homepage:
</span><span style="mso-fareast-language:DA"><a href="http://www.iva.dk/blar"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.iva.dk/blar</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:DA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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