Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval
Makoto Iwayama, Atsushi Fujii, Hidetsugu Nanba · The information retrieval series · 2020
Iwayama, Makoto Fujii, Atsushi Nanba, HidetsuguWe organized tasks on patent information retrieval during the decade from NTCIR-3 to NTCIR-8. All of the tasks were ones that reflected real needs of professional patent searchers and used large numbers of patent documents. This chapter describes the designs of the tasks, the details of the test collections, and the challenges addressed in the research field of patent information retrieval.