Intellectual property and the patent system in particular have been extremely present in
research and discussion, even in the public media, in the last few years. Without going into …

Objective: Patents are critical intellectual assets for any competitive business. They can
prove to be a gold mine if retrieved, analyzed and utilized appropriately. Patentability search …

Relevance feedback methods generally suffer from topic drift caused by word ambiguities
and synonymous uses of words. Topic drift is an important issue in patent information …

In this paper, we investigate the influence of term selection on retrieval performance on the
CLEF-IP prior art test collection, using the Description section of the patent query with …

In the patent domain significant efforts are invested to assist researchers in formulating
better queries, preferably via automated query expansion. Currently, automatic query …

Professional search in patent repositories poses several unique challenges. One key
requirement is to search the entire affected space of concepts, following well-defined …

In this paper we study the impact of query term expansion (QTE) using synonyms on patent
document retrieval. We use an automatically generated lexical database from USPTO query …

This report describes the participation of two Danish universities, University of Copenhagen
and Aalborg University, in the international search engine competition on COVID-19 (the …

More intellectual property information is generated now than ever before. The accumulation
of intellectual property data, further complicated by this continued increase in production …

Patents are critical intellectual assets for any business. With the rapid increase in the patent
filings, patent prior art retrieval has become an important task. The goal of the prior art …