Overview of CLEF-IP 2013 Lab: Information Retrieval in the Patent Domain

摘要

The first Clef-Ip test collection was made available in 2009 to support research in IR methods in the intellectual property domain; only one type of retrieval task (Prior Art Search) was given to the participants. Since then the test collection has been extended with both more content and varied types of tasks, reflecting various specific parts of patent experts' workflows. In 2013 we organized two tasks - Passage Retrieval Starting from Claims and Structure Recognition - on which we report in this work.