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 …

The identification of relevant prior art for patent applications is of key importance for the work
of patent examiners. The recent advancements in the field of natural language processing in …

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 …

NS5B of the hepatitis C virus is an RNA template-dependent RNA polymerase and therefore
the key player of the viral replicase complex. Using a highly purified enzyme expressed with …

Document search on PubMed, the pre-eminent database for biomedical literature, relies on
the annotation of its documents with relevant terms from the Medical Subject Headings …

This technical note presents the system built for the IP track of CLEF 2010 based on
PATATRAS (PATent and Article Tracking, Retrieval and AnalysiS), the modular search …

Legal texts usually comprise many kinds of texts, such as contracts, patents and treaties.
These texts usually include a huge quantity of unstructured information written in natural …

The CLEF–IP evaluation lab ran between 2009 and 2013 with a two-fold expressed
purpose:(a) to encourage research in the area of patent retrieval with a focus on cross …

This paper describes experiments with Conditional Random Fields (CRF) for extracting
bibliographical references in patent documents. CRF are used for performing extraction and …

We present a novel interactive framework for patent retrieval leveraging distributed
representations of concepts and entities extracted from the patents text. We propose a …