With the ever increasing number of filed patent applications every year, the need for effective
and efficient systems for managing such tremendous amounts of data becomes inevitably …

In the medical domain, systematic reviews are a highly trustworthy evidence source used to
inform clinical diagnosis and treatment, and governmental policy making. Systematic …

This paper outlines a conceptual framework for understanding recent developments in
information retrieval and natural language processing that attempts to integrate dense and …

More than ever, technical inventions are the symbol of our society's advance. Patents
guarantee their creators protection against infringement. For an invention being patentable …

Patent documents are important intellectual resources of protecting interests of individuals,
organizations and companies. Different from general web documents, patent documents …

Patent recommendation aims to recommend patent documents that have similar content to a
given target patent. With the explosive growth in patent applications, how to recommend …

Patent citation recommendation and prior patent search, critical for patent filing and patent
examination, have become increasingly difficult due to the rapidly growing number of …

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 current era of big data, high volumes of valuable information are available in
collections of documents, the web, social networks, and high varieties of linked data. To …

Many domain-specific search tasks are initiated by document-length queries, eg, patent
invalidity search aims to find prior art related to a new (query) patent. We call this type of …