Patent retrieval

Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-97

  Lupu, Mihai ^a   Hanbury, Allan ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT-PROCESSING; PATENT DOCUMENTS; PATENT RETRIEVAL; PATENT SEARCH; PATENT SYSTEM; RETRIEVAL METHODS; SEARCH PROCESS; TARGET COLLECTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RESEARCH;

PATENTS AND INVENTIONS;

EID: 84880877844     PISSN: 15540669     EISSN: 15540677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1561/1500000027     Document Type: Review

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