Opportunities and challenges in enhancing access to metadata of cultural heritage collections: a survey

WZ Alma'aitah, AZ Talib, MA Osman - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Machine processable data that narrate digital/non-digital resources are termed as
metadata. Different metadata standards exist for describing various types of digital objects …

Patent mining: a survey

L Zhang, L Li, T Li - ACM Sigkdd Explorations Newsletter, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Patent documents are important intellectual resources of protecting interests of individuals,
organizations and companies. Different from general web documents, patent documents …

Wikipedia-based query phrase expansion in patent class search

B Al-Shboul, SH Myaeng - Information retrieval, 2014 - Springer
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 …

Leveraging conceptual lexicon: query disambiguation using proximity information for patent retrieval

P Mahdabi, S Gerani, JX Huang… - Proceedings of the 36th …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Patent prior art search is a task in patent retrieval where the goal is to rank documents which
describe prior art work related to a patent application. One of the main properties of patent …

The effect of citation analysis on query expansion for patent retrieval

P Mahdabi, F Crestani - Information retrieval, 2014 - Springer
Patent prior art search is a type of search in the patent domain where documents are
searched for that describe the work previously carried out related to a patent application …

Is your search query well-formed? A natural query understanding for patent prior art search

R Chikkamath, D Rastogi, M Maan, M Endres - World Patent Information, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Recent advances in Deep Learning based prior art search has enabled the
development of easy-to-use prior art search engines that accept natural language search …

Query-driven mining of citation networks for patent citation retrieval and recommendation

P Mahdabi, F Crestani - Proceedings of the 23rd ACM international …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Prior art search or recommending citations for a patent application is a challenging task.
Many approaches have been proposed and shown to be useful for prior art search …

A novel re-ranking architecture for patent search

V Stamatis, M Salampasis, K Diamantaras - World Patent Information, 2024 - Elsevier
Patent search presents unique challenges due to the intricate structure and specialized
terminology embedded in patent documents. While neural models have been successfully …

A study of query reformulation for patent prior art search with partial patent applications

MR Bouadjenek, S Sanner, G Ferraro - Proceedings of the 15th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Patents are used by legal entities to legally protect their inventions and represent a multi-
billion dollar industry of licensing and litigation. In 2014, 326,033 patent applications were …

A semantic query expansion-based patent retrieval approach

F Wang, L Lin, S Yang, X Zhu - 2013 10th International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since patent documents are important technical resources, effective patent retrieval has
become more and more crucial. Unlike common information retrieval, patent retrieval is a …