Current challenges in patent information retrieval / Mihai Lupu, Katja Mayer, Noriko Kando, Anthony J. Trippe, editors.

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1 online resource (xiii, 455 pages) : illustrations ; 25 cm.

9783662538166
9783662538173 e-book
9783662538180 print
3662538180
9783662571644 print

This second edition provides a systematic introduction to the work and views of the emerging patent-search research and innovation communities as well as an overview of what has been achieved and, perhaps even more importantly, of what remains to be achieved. It revises many of the contributions of the first edition and adds a significant number of new ones. The first part "Introduction to Patent Searching" includes two overview chapters on the peculiarities of patent searching and on contemporary search technology respectively, and thus sets the scene for the subsequent parts. The second part on "Evaluating Patent Retrieval" then begins with two chapters dedicated to patent evaluation campaigns, followed by two chapters discussing complementary issues from the perspective of patent searchers and from the perspective of related domains, notably legal search. "High Recall Search" includes four completely new chapters dealing with the issue of finding only the relevant documents in a reasonable time span. The last (and with six papers the largest) part on "Special Topics in Patent Information Retrieval" covers a large spectrum of research in the patent field, from classification and image processing to translation. Lastly, the book is completed by an outlook on open issues and future research. Several of the chapters have been jointly written by intellectual property and information retrieval experts. However, members of both communities with a background different to that of the primary author have reviewed the chapters, making the book accessible to both the patent search community and to the information retrieval research community. It also not only offers the latest findings for academic researchers, but is also a valuable resource for IP professionals wanting to learn about current IR approaches in the patent domain.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

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Information retrieval series ; Volume 37.

Print version: Current challenges in patent information retrieval. Berlin, Germany : Springer, c2017 xiii, 455 pages Information retrieval series ; Volume 37.

Berlin, Germany : Springer, 2017.

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