Improving access to large patent corpora

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6380 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 103-121

  Bache, Richard ^a   Azzopardi, Leif ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN MODEL; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HYBRID MODEL; LENGTH NORMALIZATION; PATENT SEARCHERS; RETRIEVAL MODELS; RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; TERM FREQUENCY;

DATA WAREHOUSES; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 78149373616     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16175-9_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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