Passage Retrieval Starting from Patent Claims A Clef-Ip 2013 Task Overview.
Florina Piroi, Mihai Lupu, Allan Hanbury · 2013
Abstract. Most of the searches a patent expert at a patent oce does are using boolean methods to query large databases of patent data. The Clef-Ip evaluation track is designed to experiment with information re-trieval techniques on the patent domain. The data corpus in the Clef-Ip Lab consists of patent documents published by the European Patent Of-ce. One of the main tasks in the Lab has been related to the Prior Art type of search performed by the patent experts at patent oces. The task has went through various changes along the years, from using vir-tual patent documents as topics (in 2009) to actual patent application documents, and sets of claims from patent application documents (2012 and 2013). Relevance assessments for this task were based on Search Reports published by the European Patent Oce. In this overview we give report on the work we have done in organizing this retrieval task in 2013. 1 The Clef-Ip Passage Retrieval Task