The patent mining task in the seventh NTCIR workshop

This paper introduces the Patent Mining Task of the Seventh NTCIR Workshop and the test collections produced in this task. The task's goal was the classification of research papers written in either Japanese or English in terms of the International Patent Classification (IPC) system, which is a global standard. For this task, 12 participant groups submitted 49 runs. In this paper, we also report the evaluation results of the task. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Search and Retrieval]: Search process H.3.4 [Systems and Software]: Performance evaluation H.3.5 [Online Information Services]: Data sharing General Terms Measurement, Performance, Experimentation Keywords test collection, classification of research papers, patent, International Patent Classification (IPC)

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: CIKM
• Authors: Hidetsugu Nanba, Atsushi Fujii, Makoto Iwayama, Taiichi Hashimoto
• Keywords: CIKM 2008, Information Management, International Patent Classification, Patent Mining Task, Test Collection