Paper Info
Title
A user-friendly tool for medical-related patent retrieval.
Abstract
Health-related information retrieval is complicated by the variety of nomenclatures available to name entities, since different communities of users will use different ways to name a same entity. We present in this report the development and evaluation of a user-friendly interactive Web application aiming at facilitating health-related patent search. Our tool, called TWINC, relies on a search engine tuned during several patent retrieval competitions, enhanced with intelligent interaction modules, such as chemical query, normalization and expansion. While the functionality of related article search showed promising performances, the ad hoc search results in fairly contrasted results. Nonetheless, TWINC performed well during the PatOlympics competition and was appreciated by intellectual property experts. This result should be balanced by the limited evaluation sample. We can also assume that it can be customized to be applied in corporate search environments to process domain and company-specific vocabularies, including non-English literature and patents reports.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.3233/978-1-61499-052-9-121
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Information retrieval,patent,ad hoc search,related article search
Data mining,World Wide Web,Human–computer information retrieval,Search engine,Normalization (statistics),Information retrieval,Patent retrieval,Web application,Intellectual property,User Friendly,Medicine,Concept search
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
174
0926-9630
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Emilie Pasche19915.93
Julien Gobeill230230.42
Douglas Teodoro36810.46
Arnaud Gaudinat46212.47
Dina Vishnyakova511311.16
Christian Lovis634955.53
patrick ruch711722.37