arXiv:2507.14946cs.IRcs.LG2025-07

用语义搜索提升专利检索召回率,确保不遗漏任何相关文献。

FullRecall: A Semantic Search-Based Ranking Approach for Maximizing Recall in Patent Retrieval

  • 基于IPC知识生成关键短语,构建聚焦查询以全面检索
  • 多阶段处理实现全部五项测试中100%召回率
  • 适合专利审查员和发明人用于规避法律风险

专利审查员和发明人在验证发明新颖性和非显而易见性时面临巨大压力,专利数据的复杂性进一步加剧了检索挑战。本文提出FullRecall,一种新型专利检索方法,通过利用IPC引导的知识生成信息性短语,提取查询专利的关键名词短语,选出前k个关键词构建查询,实现初始检索的完全召回,成功捕获所有相关文档。随后对检索结果集应用排序策略,在缩小规模的同时保持100%召回。在五个测试案例中,该方法均达到100%召回率,而基准方法HRR2[1]分别为10%、25%、33.3%、0%、14.29%,ReQ-ReC[2]仅在第一、二项测试中分别达到50%和25%,其余三项为0%。100%召回确保无相关现有技术被遗漏,强化专利申请前审查与审查流程,降低潜在法律风险。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Patent examiners and inventors face significant pressure to verify the originality and non-obviousness of inventions, and the intricate nature of patent data intensifies the challenges of patent retrieval. Therefore, there is a pressing need to devise cutting-edge retrieval strategies that can reliably achieve the desired recall. This study introduces FullRecall, a novel patent retrieval approach that effectively manages the complexity of patent data while maintaining the reliability of relevance matching and maximising recall. It leverages IPC-guided knowledge to generate informative phrases, which are processed to extract key information in the form of noun phrases characterising the query patent under observation. From these, the top k keyphrases are selected to construct a query for retrieving a focused subset of the dataset. This initial retrieval step achieves complete recall, successfully capturing all relevant documents. To further refine the results, a ranking scheme is applied to the retrieved subset, reducing its size while maintaining 100% recall. This multi-phase process demonstrates an effective strategy for balancing precision and recall in patent retrieval tasks. Comprehensive experiments were conducted, and the results were compared with baseline studies, namely HRR2 [1] and ReQ-ReC [2]. The proposed approach yielded superior results, achieving 100% recall in all five test cases. However, HRR2[1] recall values across the five test cases were 10%, 25%, 33.3%, 0%, and 14.29%, while ReQ-ReC [2] showed 50% for the first test case, 25% for the second test case, and 0% for the third, fourth, and fifth test cases. The 100% recall ensures that no relevant prior art is overlooked, thereby strengthening the patent pre-filing and examination processes, hence reducing potential legal risks.

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