@inproceedings{9fda7712bea14268be70bcdfbf8d7008,
title = "An investigation of decompounding for cross-language patent search",
abstract = "Decompounding has been found to improve information retrieval (IR) effectiveness in general domains for languages such as German or Dutch. We investigate if cross-language patent retrieval can profit from decompounding. This poses two challenges: i) There may be few resources such as parallel corpora available for training an machine translation system for a compounding language. ii) Patents have a specific writing style and vocabulary ({"}paten-tese{"}) Which may affect the performance of decompounding and translation methods. Experiments on data from the CLEF-IP 2010 task show that decompounding patents for translation can overcome out-of-vocabulary problems (OOV) and that decompounding improves IR performance significantly for small training corpora.",
keywords = "Decompounding, Patent retrieval",
author = "Johannes Leveling and Walid Magdy and Jones, {Gareth J.F.}",
year = "2011",
month = jan
day = "1",
doi = "10.1145/2009916.2010103",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781450309349",
series = "SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "1169--1170",
booktitle = "SIGIR'11 - Proceedings of the 34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval",
note = "34th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2011 ; Conference date: 24-07-2011 Through 28-07-2011",
}