The Information Retrieval Facility (IRF), founded 2006 and located in Vienna, Austria, is a research platform for networking and collaboration for professionals in the field of information retrieval.
The IRF has members in the following categories:
- Researchers in information retrieval (IR) or related scientific areas
- Industrial/corporate information management professionals
- Patent authorities and governmental institutions<
- Students of one of the above
Read more about Information Retrieval Facility: The Scientific Board, Scientific Goals, Semantic Supercomputing, The World Patent Corpus, Research Collections
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