EVENTS
USPTO Symposium on Entity Resolution
During the virtual symposium on entity resolution practices and applications, the United States Patent and Trademark Office and The American Institutes for Research looked to bring together computer scientists, information scientists, economists and others to discuss the state-of-the-art approaches to and current applications of entity resolution, particularly focusing on applications to patents. The symposium reviewed methods and applications with the following goals.
- To provide an overview of current approaches from leading scholars in the field.
- To build knowledge, identify a community of practitioners, and facilitate the application of common approaches.
Organization
The symposium was structured as three half-day sessions during the week of March 22nd, 2021.
Each session included expert speakers and a panel conversation.
The introduction for the symposium was given by Chief Economist Andrew (Andy) Toole on behalf of the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
| Monday, March 22 | 9:00 am to 12:30 pm EST | |||
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| Speaker | Organization | Relevant Links | Presentation Slides |
| Rebecca Steorts | Duke University, Department of Statistical Science | ||
| Greg Morrison | University of Houston, Department of Physics | ||
| Nicholas Monath | University of Massachusetts Amherst, Computer Science |
Scalable Hierarchical Clustering with Tree Grafting Disambiguating Patent Inventors, Assignees, and their Locations in PatentsView |
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| Osmat Azzam Jefferson | The Lens, Cambia |
Mapping innovation trajectories on SARS-CoV-2 and its variants |
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| Panel Conversation | Video Presentation Link | ||
| Wednesday, March 24 | 9:00 am to 12:30 pm EST | |||
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| Speaker | Organization | Relevant Links | Presentation Slides |
| Donatella Firmani | Roma Tre University, Engineering Department - Computer Science and Automation | Modern Approaches to Entity Resolution | |
| Bunyamin Sisman | Amazon.com, Inc. |
Contrastive Entity Linkage: Mining Variational Attributes from Large Catalogs for Entity Linkage CorDEL: A Contrastive Deep Learning Approach for Entity Linkage |
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| Deyun Yin | Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen & World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) |
A Brief Survey of Automatic Methods for Author Name Disambiguation |
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| Julie Callaert | KU Leuven, ECOOM - Centre for Research and Development Monitoring |
Harmonizing Harmonized Patentee Names: An exploratory assessment of top patentees Data production methods for harmonized patent statistics: Patentee name harmonization |
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| Panel Conversation | Video Presentation Link | ||
| Friday, March 26 | 9:00 am to 11:30 am EST | |||
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| Speaker | Organization | Relevant Links | Presentation Slides |
| Hélène Dernis and Mariagrazia Squicciarini | Directorate for Science, Technology, and Industry, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) |
World Corporate Top R&D Investors: Shaping the future of technologies and of AI |
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| Thorsten Doherr | Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) | ||
| Matthew Ross | Claremont Graduate University, Economic Sciences Department and Computational Justice Lab |
Presentation Slides |
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| Panel Conversation | Video Presentation Link | ||
The symposium agenda is linked here for a layout of the event.