1. The PATENTSCOPE search system: CLIR February 2013 Sandrine Ammann Marketing & Communications Officer

2. To the PATENTSCOPE search system webinar CLIR

3. Agenda CLIR Definition History Search with CLIR Usefulness Golden rules Technicalities Q & A session

4. CLIR Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Finds synonyms in different domains Translates those found synonyms + original query into different languages

5. CLIR – 12 languages available NON-ASIAN Dutch English French German Italian Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish ASIAN Chinese Japanese Korean

6. History

7. Lower language barriers in patent search First language tool developed in-house

8. CLIR: the interface

9. CLIR: precision vs recall Precision = the ability to retrieve the most precise results. Trying to find only precisely relevant items (high precision) = miss important items because they don't use quite the same vocabulary. Recall = the ability to retrieve as many documents as possible that match or are related to a query. Trying to find all the relevant items (high recall) = often get a lot of junk.

10. CLIR: precision vs recall

11. Example: precision

12. Example: recall

13. Example: ARM

16. CHIP

19. CLIR: supervised mode 2 modes: automatic and supervised Automatic: 1 step Supervised: 4 steps

20. Cross-Lingual Expansion (CLIR)

22. Result : the query from “container” to:

23. Supervised mode: 1 of 4 steps

24. Supervised mode : 2 of 4 steps

25. Supervised mode : 3 of 4 steps

29. Crowdsourcing "is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers. […] Crowdsourcing is different from an ordinary outsourcing since it is a task or problem that is outsourced to an undefined public rather than a specific body." source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing

30. Supervised mode : 4 of 4 steps

31. First: select languages

32. Second: select parameters

33. Stemming Process that removes common ending from words by English Porter algorithm electric¦al = electric electric¦ity = electric electron¦ics = electron

34. Third: check variants

35. Second: check variants

36. Editing

37. Checking: IPC

38. Supervised mode: results

42. Search examples: clothes for sport Entering “sports clothing” in the Simple search interface will return 168 results Entering “sports clothing” in the CLIR interface (in automatic mode) will return 5,449 results Entering “sports clothing” in the CLIR interface (in supervised mode) will return 1,023 results

43. Why use CLIR? A)Search full text collections simultaneously in many foreign languages B)Improve significantly the number of relevant results without increasing significantly the number of irrelevant results 485 results in English titles or abstracts for “sports clothing” 575 results obtained with CLIR searching in titles or abstracts in all languages C)Have confidence in your searches: No black box: users have access to the CLIR generated Boolean queries (albeit complex) and have the full control on them D)Have a responsive system even for complex queries

44. Golden rules Expansion modes Keyword very specific with only 1 meaning AUTO For any other queries, SUPERVISED is recommended Variants/synonyms Select words that you would like to appear in your search results If you have too much noise in the result list, remove generic variant

45. Golden rules Parameters 1. Title and abstract: unconstrained distance 2. Claims: sentence/paragraph distance 3. Description: sentence/paragraph distance Stemming recommended

46. Technicalities Compilation of a long list of titles in language pairs Creation of in-house extraction methodology Tool learns statistical bilingual dictionaries of titles EN FR ZH DE KO ES

47. Technicalities Quality of dictionaries: no human intervention The more title available, the better the coverage ChineseKoreanDutch EnglishPortugueseItalian FrenchRussianSwedish GermanSpanish Japanese

48. Technicalities Disambiguation: process of identifying the sense of a word in a sentence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disambiguation_%28disambiguation%29 Disambiguation is applied to keywords: 1.Technical domains based on the IPC 2.Synonyms selection

49. Future plans Improve terminology coverage of already supported languages Add other languages: over 200’000 titles and abstracts with associated high quality translations in English

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