PERFEDPAT

Pluggable Platform for Personalised Multilingual Patent Search

Coordinatore	TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN    more  Organization address address: Karlsplatz 13 city: WIEN postcode: 1040 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Natascha Cognome: Surnic Email: send email Telefono: +43 1 58801 18803
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Austria [AT]
Totale costo	235˙990 €
EC contributo	235˙990 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IEF
Funding Scheme	MC-IEF
Anno di inizio	2011
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2011-09-01   -   2014-10-01

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN  Organization address address: Karlsplatz 13 city: WIEN postcode: 1040 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Natascha Cognome: Surnic Email: send email Telefono: +43 1 58801 18803	AT (WIEN)	coordinator	235˙990.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Patent search is an economically important problem, central to the R&D operations of many industries including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, automotive and many more. Besides the economic interest, from a technological perspective, patent search reveals important challenges for the field of information access. This is because it has important differences (lengthy search sessions, demand for high recall, high value documents) despite it shares a number of important characteristics with web search. The PerFedPat proposal aims to research into a new generation of advanced patent search systems for the patent related industries and the whole spectrum of patent users by designing a new exciting framework for integrating multiple patent data sources, patent search tools and UIs. The iPerFedPat system, which will be the main result of the project, will have a pluggable architecture, providing core services and operations being able to integrate multiple patent data sources and patent related data streams, thus providing multiple patent search tools and UIs while hiding complexity from the end user. At the core of the system’s architecture lies the idea of Personalised Federated Search. In iPerFedPat federated search is used as a method for retrieving information from distributed data sets into user’s workbench, possibly operate and/or integrate, and finally deliver to the patent users for using them in a parallel, coordinated way. As a result the iPerFedPat system will be able to provide a rich, personalised information seeking experience for different types of patent search types, potentially exploiting techniques from diverse areas such as distributed information retrieval, machine learning and human-computer interaction.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

An EU team developed a superior system for searching patent applications, involving a federated search framework. The team interviewed experts to define components, then created and tested a prototype, meeting with user approval.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

Technological industries and patent searches go together like bread and butter. While numerous search systems exist, some free and others not, all rely on the same centralised index architecture.

The architecture has certain performance limitations. The EU-funded http://www.perfedpat.eu (PERFEDPAT) (Pluggable platform for personalised multilingual patent search) project aimed to develop an improvement. The proposal involved devising a new framework, called a federated search, for integrating multiple online data sources. Other goals included creating new search tools and user interfaces. For users, the benefit is simplicity. The three-year undertaking concluded in late 2014.

Work began with interviews with patent search experts to define the system's components. The prototype was also reviewed and evaluated by experts. Initial evaluations indicated a high degree of acceptance and usability. Second-year work integrated additional components and search tools.

The project successfully demonstrated both the feasibility and user acceptance of its proposed patent search system. Such outcomes may benefit the patent search industry and other technologically reliant sectors.