A system for Japanese/English/Korean multilingual patent retrieval

Mitsuharu Makita, Shigeto Higuchi, Atsushi Fujii, Tetsuya Ishikawa


Abstract
In response to growing needs for cross-lingual patent retrieval, we propose PRIME (Patent Retrieval In Multilingual Environment system), in which users can retrieve and browse patents in foreign languages only by their native language. PRIME translates a query in the user language into the target language, retrieves patents relevant to the query, and translates retrieved patents into the user language. To update a translation dictionary, PRIME automatically extracts new translations from parallel patent corpora. In the current implementation, trilingual (J/E/K) patent retrieval is available. We describe the system design and its evaluation.
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Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit IX: System Presentations
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September 23-27
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2003
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Mitsuharu Makita, Shigeto Higuchi, Atsushi Fujii, and Tetsuya Ishikawa. 2003. A system for Japanese/English/Korean multilingual patent retrieval. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit IX: System Presentations, New Orleans, USA.
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