At CLEF 2009 the University of Hildesheim focused on the main task of the Intellectual Property Track which aims at finding prior art for a specified patent [cf. Information Retri...
Daniela Becks, Christa Womser-Hacker, Thomas Mandl...
Patent text is a rich source to discover technological progresses, useful to understand the trend and forecast upcoming advances. For the importance in mind, several researchers h...
Youngho Kim, Yingshi Tian, Yoonjae Jeong, Jihee Ry...
High findability of documents within a certain cut-off rank is considered an important factor in recall-oriented application domains such as patent or legal document retrieval. ...
The CLEF-IP track was launched in 2009 to investigate IR techniques for patent retrieval. It is part of the CLEF 2009 evaluation campaign. Also, in 2009 we built a system in order ...
Adrian Iftene, Ovidiu Ionescu, George-Razvan Oance...
This paper describes an extension to a multimodal system designed to improve Internet accessibility for the visually impaired. Here we discuss the novel application of a grid (pat...
Philip Strain, Graham McAllister, Emma Murphy, Rav...