CLEF-IP 2009: Retrieval experiments in the intellectual property domain

CEUR Workshop Proceedings

Volumn 1175, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Roda, Giovanna ^a   Tait, John ^b   Piroi, Florina ^b   Zenz, Veronika ^a  

^a Matrixware Information Services GmbH   (India)

^b Information Retrieval Facility   (Austria)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Evaluation track; Intellectual property; Patent retrieval; Prior art search; Test collection

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CROSS-LINGUAL INFORMATION; EUROPEAN LANGUAGES; EVALUATION TRACK; LARGE SCALE TESTS; PATENT CITATION; PATENT RETRIEVAL; PRIOR ART SEARCH; TEST COLLECTION;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84922051604     PISSN: 16130073     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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