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Patentssearcher: a novel portal to search and explore patents

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Ramakrishna VaradarajanAuthors Info & Claims

PaIR '10: Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Patent information retrieval

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1871888.1871895

Published: 26 October 2010 Publication History

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There is an abundance of systems today to search for relevant patents, ranging from free ones like Google Patents (google.com/patents) to subscription ones like Delphion (delphion.com). After studying many existing systems, we found that they all apply general-purpose Information Retrieval (IR) techniques to rank patents. We argue that the quality of search can be significantly improved by exploiting the domain semantics: e.g., patents are organized into classes and subclasses, and have links to external publication and to other patents. Also patents' text is organized into various sections and uses specific legal wording.

We present the PatentsSearcher system, available at PatentsSearcher.com, whose key contribution is to leverage the domain semantics to improve the quality of discovery and ranking. PatentsSearcher also offers other novel functionalities to help users locate and navigate relevant and important patents or applications.

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Patentssearcher: a novel portal to search and explore patents
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Retrieval models and ranking
    2. Retrieval tasks and goals

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PaIR '10: Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Patent information retrieval

October 2010

76 pages

ISBN:9781450303842

DOI:10.1145/1871888

General Chair:
John Tait
Information Retrieval Facility, AT
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Program Chairs:
Christopher Harris
The University of Iowa, USA
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Mihai Lupu
Information Retrieval Facility, AT

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