Title
Evaluating patent retrieval in the third NTCIR workshop
Abstract
Reflecting the rapid growth in the utilization of large test collections for information retrieval since the 1990s, extensive comparative experiments have been performed to explore the effectiveness of various retrieval models. However, most collections were intended for retrieving newspaper articles and technical abstracts. In this paper, we describe the process of producing a test collection for patent retrieval, the NTCIR-3 Patent Retrieval Collection, which includes two years of Japanese patent applications and 31 topics produced by professional patent searchers. We also report experimental results obtained by using this collection to re-examine the effectiveness of existing retrieval models in the context of patent retrieval. The relative superiority among existing retrieval models did not significantly differ depending on the document genre, that is, patents and newspaper articles. Issues related to patent retrieval are also discussed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1016/j.ipm.2004.08.012
Inf. Process. Manage.
Keywords
Field
DocType
large test collection,various retrieval model,patent retrieval,newspaper article,retrieving newspaper article,test collection,information retrieval,japanese patent application,test collections,ntcir workshop,retrieval models,professional patent searcher,retrieval model
Data mining,World Wide Web,Human–computer information retrieval,Information retrieval,Computer science,Patent retrieval,Newspaper,Document retrieval
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
42
1
Information Processing and Management
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
2.30
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Makoto Iwayama143687.03
Atsushi Fujii248659.25
Noriko Kando31474209.89
Yozo Marukawa4142.30