Information Retrieval Facility

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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