Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval

Part I. Introduction to Patent Searching

1. Introduction to Patent Searching
Doreen Alberts, Cynthia Barcelon Yang, Denise Fobare-DePonio, Ken Koubek, Suzanne Robins, Matthew Rodgers, Edlyn Simmons, Dominic DeMarco

2. An Introduction to Contemporary Search Technology
Mihai Lupu, Florina Piroi, Veronika Stefanov

Part II. Evaluating Patent Retrieval

3. Patent-Related Tasks at NTCIR
Mihai Lupu, Atsushi Fujii, Douglas W. Oard, Makoto Iwayama, Noriko Kando

4. Evaluating Information Retrieval Systems on European Patent Data: The CLEF-IP Campaign
Florina Piroi, Allan Hanbury

5. Evaluating Real Patent Retrieval Effectiveness
Anthony Trippe, Ian Ruthven

6. Measuring Effectiveness in the TREC Legal Track
Stephen Tomlinson, Bruce Hedin

Part III. High Recall Search

7. Retrieval Models Versus Retrievability
Shariq Bashir, Andreas Rauber

8. Federated Patent Search
Michail Salampasis

9. The Portability of Three Types of Text Mining Techniques into the Patent Text Genre
Linda Andersson, Allan Hanbury, Andreas Rauber

10. Visual Analysis of Patent Data Through Global Maps and Overlays
Luciano Kay, Alan L. Porter, Jan Youtie, Nils Newman, Ismael Ràfols

Part IV. Special Topics in Patent Retrieval

11. Patent Classification on Subgroup Level Using Balanced Winnow
Eva D’hondt, Suzan Verberne, Nelleke Oostdijk, Lou Boves

12. Document Image Classification, with a Specific View on Applications of Patent Images
Gabriela Csurka

13. Flowchart Recognition in Patent Information Retrieval
Marçal Rusiñol, Josep Lladós

14. Modern Approaches to Chemical Image Recognition
Igor V. Filippov, Mihai Lupu, Alan P. Sexton

15. Representation and Searching of Chemical Structure Information in Patents
Geoff M. Downs, John D. Holliday, Peter Willett

16. Machine Translation and the Challenge of Patents
John Tinsley

17. Future Patent Search
Barrou Diallo, Mihai Lupu

Keywords: Computer Science, Information Storage and Retrieval, Document Preparation and Text Processing, Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing, Commercial Law