A Survey on Patent Users Search Behavior, Search Functionality and System Requirements
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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 and their needs and expectations of patent search and analysis tools, 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, tools and methods which could be applied in order to ease the burden of such retrieval tasks, and also make searching patents more accessible to non-Patent Information Specialists. In this report, we outline the findings from a survey of patent users conducted to ascertain information about patent users and their requirements with respect to Information Retrieval applications. This report was commissioned by the Information Retrieval Facility. A summary of this report has been published in [5] and a paper on these findings has been submitted.
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Report: A Survey on Patent Users Search Behavior, Search Functionality and System Requirements
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