Limitations of Automatic Patent IR: A Plea for More Interactivity

In the last years, the interest of the IR-community in patent retrieval has risen. Various experiments have been undertaken and the problems of the field experienced in-depth. Results show that the paramount steps in the patent retrieval process are difficult to automate. This paper gives an overvie...

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Published in:Datenbank-Spektrum : Zeitschrift für Datenbanktechnologie : Organ der Fachgruppe Datenbanken der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V 2014-03, Vol.14 (1), p.5-17
Main Authors: Jürgens, Julia J., Womser-Hacker, Christa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Computer Science
Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
Data Structures and Information Theory
Database Management
Information Storage and Retrieval
IT in Business
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Summary:In the last years, the interest of the IR-community in patent retrieval has risen. Various experiments have been undertaken and the problems of the field experienced in-depth. Results show that the paramount steps in the patent retrieval process are difficult to automate. This paper gives an overview over the methods that have been tested in the domain including their results and promotes a complementary, more interactive approach to patent retrieval. At last, promising areas for future research are described.
ISSN:1618-2162
1610-1995
DOI:10.1007/s13222-014-0149-y