Searching the Web: the public and their queries
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Retrieval
ACM SIGIR Forum
The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context (The Information Retrieval Series)
A study of search tactics for patentability search: a case study on patent engineers
Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Patent information retrieval
Toward a more rational patent search paradigm
Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Patent information retrieval
Improving access to large patent corpora
Transactions on large-scale data- and knowledge-centered systems II
Improving access to large patent corpora
Transactions on large-scale data- and knowledge-centered systems II
The economics in interactive information retrieval
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Automatic boolean query suggestion for professional search
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
PatentLight: a patent search application
Proceedings of the 4th Information Interaction in Context Symposium
Web searching with entity mining at query time
IRFC'12 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Multidisciplinary Information Retrieval
The impact of spelling errors on patent search
EACL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
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With a growing interest in Patent Information Retrieval, there is a need to better understand the context associated with patent users, their tasks, needs and expectations of patent search systems and applications. Patent search is known to be a complex, difficult and challenging activity, usually requiring expert Patent Information Specialists to spend a substantial amount of time sourcing (or not) documents relevant to their particular task. Information Retrieval provides a whole array of possible techniques and tools which could be applied to ease the burden of such retrieval tasks, and also make searching patents more accessible to non-Patent Information Specialists. In this paper, we report the findings from a survey of patent users conducted to ascertain information about patent users and their search requirements with respect to Information Retrieval systems and applications.