Topics in prior-art patent search are typically full patent applications and relevant items are patents often taken from sources in different languages. Cross language patent retr...
We investigate the connection between part of speech (POS) distribution and content in language. We define POS blocks to be groups of parts of speech. We hypothesise that there ex...
The selection of indexing terms for representing documents is a key decision that limits how effective subsequent retrieval can be. Often stemming algorithms are used to normaliz...
XPath is the standard declarative language for navigating XML data and returning a set of matching nodes. In the context of XSLT/XQuery analysis, query optimization, and XML type ...
In this study, we describe our system at the Intellectual Property track of the 2009 CrossLanguage Evaluation Forum campaign (CLEF-IP). The CLEF-IP track addressed prior art searc...