Abstract
This paper gives an overview of several different approaches that have been applied by participants in the CLEF-IP evaluation initiative. On this basis, it is suggested that other techniques and experimental paradigms could be helpful in further improving the results and making the experiments more realistic. The field of information seeking is therefore incorporated and its potential gain for patent retrieval explained. Furthermore, the different search tasks that are undertaken by patent searchers are introduced as possible use cases. They can serve as a basis for development in patent retrieval research in that they present the diverse scenarios with their special characteristics and give the research community therefore a realistic picture of the patent user’s work.
Keywords
- Search Task
- Information Seek
- Patent Document
- Relevance Assessment
- Patent Examiner
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Lopez, P., Romary, L.: PATATRAS: Retrieval Model Combination and Regression Models for Prior Art Search. In: Peters, C., et al., pp. 430–437 (2010)
Peters, C., Di Nunzio, G.M., Kurimo, M., Mandl, T., Mostefa, D., Peñas, A., Roda, G. (eds.): CLEF 2009. LNCS, vol. 6241. Springer, Heidelberg (2010)
Petras, V., Forner, P., Clough, P.D. (eds.): CLEF 2011 Labs and Workshop, Notebook Papers, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 19-22 (2011)
Järvelin, A., Järvelin, A., Hansen, P.: UTA and SICS at CLEF-IP. In: Peters, C., et al., pp. 460–467 (2010)
Hansen, P.: Task-based information Seeking and Retrieval in the Patent Domain. Processes and Relationships. Academic Dissertation, University of Tampere (2011)
Becks, D., Görtz, M., Womser-Hacker, C.: Understanding information seeking in the patent domain and its impact on the interface design of IR systems. In: Proceedings of the HCIR 2010, New Brunswick, NJ, August 22 (2010)
Graf, E., Azzopardi, L., van Rijsbergen, K.: Automatically Generating Queries for Prior Art Search. In: Peters, C., et al., pp. 480–490 (2010)
Piroi, F., Zenz, V.: Evaluating Information Retrieval in the Intellectual Property Domain: The CLEF IP Campaign. In: Lupu, M., Tait, J., Trippe, A., Mayer, K. (eds.) Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval. Springer, Heidelberg (2011)
Magdy, W., Leveling, J., Jones, G.J.F.: DCU @ CLEF-IP 2009: Exploring Standard IR Techniques on Patent Retrieval. In: Peters, C., et al., pp. 410–417 (2010)
Seo, H.-K., Han, K., Lee, J.: CLEF-IP 2011 Working Notes: Utilizing Prior Art Candidate Search Results for Refined IPC Classification. In: Petras, V., et al, eds. (2011)
D’hondt, E., Verberne, S.: CLEF-IP 2010: Prior Art Retrieval using the different sections in patent documents. In: Braschler, M., et al. (2010)
Braschler, M., Harman, D., Pianta, E. (eds.): CLEF 2010 LABs and Workshops, Notebook Papers, Padua, Italy, September 22-23 (2010)
Magdy, W., Jones, G.J.F.: Applying the KISS Principle for the CLEF- IP 2010 Prior Art Candidate Patent Search Task. In: Braschler, M., et al. (2010)
Szarvas, G., Herbert, B., Gurevych, I.: Prior Art Search using International Patent Classification Codes and All-Claims-Queries. In: Peters, C., et al. (eds.), pp. 452–459 (2010)
D’hondt, E., Verberne, S., Alink, W., Cornacchia, R.: Combining Document Representations for Prior-art Retrieval. In: Petras, V., et al. (2011)
Becks, D., Eibl, M., Jürgens, J., Kürsten, J., Wilhelm, T., Womser-Hacker, C.: Does Patent IR profit from Linguistics or Maximum Query Length? In: Petras, V., et al. (2011)
Teodoro, D., Gobeill, J., Pasche, E., Vishnyakova, D., Ruch, P., Lovis, C.: Automatic prior art searching and patent encoding at CLEF-IP 2010. In: Braschler, M., et al. (2010)
Toucedo, J.C., Losada, D.E.: University of Santiago de Compostela at CLEF-IP09. In: Peters, C., et al., pp. 418–425 (2010)
Mahdabi, P., Andersson, L., Hanbury, A., Crestani, F.: Report on the CLEF-IP 2011 Experiments: Exploring Patent Summarization. In: Petras, V., et al. (2011)
Lopez, P., Romary, L.: Experiments with citation mining and key-term extraction for Prior Art Search. In: Braschler, M., et al. (2010)
Verma, M., Varma, V.: Exploring Keyphrase Extraction and IPC Classification Vectors for Prior Art Search. In: Petras, V., et al. (2011)
Alink, W., Cornacchia, R., de Vries, A.P.: Searching CLEF-IP by Strategy. In: Peters, C., et al. (eds.), pp. 468–475 (2010)
Correa, S., Buscaldi, D., Rosso, P.: NLEL-MAAT at CLEF-IP. In: Peters, C., et al. (eds.), pp. 438–443 (2010)
Marchionini, G.: Information seeking in electronic environments. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge (1995)
Adams, S.: Information Sources in Patents. KG Sauer, München (2006)
Hunt, D., Nguyen, L., Rodgers, M.: Patent Searching. Tools and techniques. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken (2007)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Jürgens, J.J., Hansen, P., Womser-Hacker, C. (2012). Going beyond CLEF-IP: The ‘Reality’ for Patent Searchers?. In: Catarci, T., Forner, P., Hiemstra, D., Peñas, A., Santucci, G. (eds) Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visual Analytics. CLEF 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7488. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33247-0_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33247-0_4
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-33246-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-33247-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)
