作者位次 #3/5SIGIR 2026Oral· Information Retrieval (Full)
Is It Novel and Why? Fine-Grained Patent Novelty Prediction Based on Passage Retrieval
Valentin Knappich · Anna Hätty · Simon Razniewski (ScaDS.AI & · Annemarie Friedrich · Annemarie Friedrich
摘要
Novelty assessment is a critical yet complex task in the examination process for patent acceptance, requiring examiners to determine whether an invention is disclosed in a prior art document. The process involves intricate matching between specific features of a patent claim and passages in the p...