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Patent-Related Tasks at NTCIR

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Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval

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Abstract

The NII Testbeds and Community for Information access Research (ntcir) has been the first benchmarking campaign that created a test collection specifically for patent retrieval, in 2001/2002. Over the course of just over a decade, organisers and participants at NTCIR patent-related challenges have addressed the problem of mono- and multilingual patent search and automated translation. In doing so, the only available East Asian language patent test collections have been created and made publicly available for research purposes. This chapter provides a reference summary of the efforts undertaken in NTCIR, helping the reader understand the challenges addressed, the datasets created and the solutions observed.

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  1. TU Wien, Vienna, Austria

    Mihai Lupu

  2. Department of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, 152-8550, Japan

    Atsushi Fujii

  3. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Douglas W. Oard

  4. Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, 185-8601, Japan

    Makoto Iwayama

  5. National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, 101-8430, Japan

    Noriko Kando

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  1. Institute for Software Engineering & Interactive Systems, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

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  2. Research Platform Responsible Research and Innovation in Academic Practice, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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  3. Information & Society Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

    Noriko Kando

  4. Patinformatics, LLC , Dublin, Ohio, USA

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Lupu, M., Fujii, A., Oard, D.W., Iwayama, M., Kando, N. (2017). Patent-Related Tasks at NTCIR. In: Lupu, M., Mayer, K., Kando, N., Trippe, A. (eds) Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53817-3_3

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