Scaling Up High-Value Retrieval to Medium-Volume Data -- Sentence-Level Attachment Prediction -- Rank by Readability: Document Weighting for Information Retrieval -- Knowledge Modeling in Prior Art Search -- Combining Wikipedia-Based Concept Models for Cross-Language Retrieval -- Exploring Contextual Models in Chemical Patent Search -- Measuring the Variability in Effectiveness of a Retrieval System -- An Information Retrieval Model Based on Discrete Fourier Transform -- Logic-Based Retrieval: Technology for Content-Oriented and Analytical Querying of Patent Data -- Automatic Extraction and Resolution of Bibliographical References in Patent Documents -- An Investigation of Quantum Interference in Information Retrieval -- Abstracts versus Full Texts and Patents: A Quantitative Analysis of Biomedical Entities.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First Information Retrieval Facility Conference, IRFC 2010, held in Vienna, Austria, im May 2010. The 11 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 high-quality submissions. IRF conferences wish to resonate in particular with young researchers. This first conference aimed to tackle four complementary research areas: information retrieval, semantic web technologies for IT, natural language processing for IR, and large-scale or distributed computing for the above areas.