Query Enhancement for Patent Prior Art Search based on Keyterm Dependency Relations and Semantic Tags

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Prior art search is one of the most common forms of patent search, whose goal is to find patent documents that constitute prior art for a given patent being examined. Current patent search systems are mostly keyword-based, and due to the unique characteristics of patents and their usage, such as embedded structure and the length of patent documents, there are rooms for further improvements. In this paper, we propose a new query formulation method by using keyword dependency relations and semantic tags, which have not been used for prior art search. The key idea of this paper is to make use of patent structure, linguistic clues and use word relations to identify important terms. Moreover, to formulate better queries we attempt to identify what technology area a patent belongs to and what problems/solutions it addresses. Based on our experiments where IPC codes are used for relevance judgments, we show that keyword dependency relation approach achieved 13~18% improvement in MAP over the traditional tf-idf based term weighting method when a single field is used for query formulation. Furthermore, we obtain 42~46% improvement in MAP when additional terms are used through pattern-based semantic tagging.
Publisher
Information Retrieval Facility
Issue Date
2012-07-02
Language
English
Citation

The 5th Information Retrieval Facility Conference 2012, pp.28 - 42

DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-31274-8_3
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/171636
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CS-Conference Papers(학술회의논문)
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