IRF is a non-profit research institute providing services to IR science in the form of a reference laboratory. Committed to Open Science concepts, the IRF ensures ongoing publication of recent scientific results and newly developed methods. Such transparency ensures objective evaluation and comparability of results and consequently diversity and sustainability of their further development.
Like no other facility in the world, the IRF provides a powerful supercomputing infrastructure that is exclusively concerned with semantic processing of text. It has at its heart ahuge collection of documents representing the global archive of ideas and inventions in an environment, which allows large-scale scientific experiments on ways to manage and retrieve this knowledge.
This enormous collection of real data allows IR researchers from all over the world to experiment for the first time on a realistic data corpus. The quality of search results is reviewed and evaluated in many fields but especially those specialising in patent search.
