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Table 1 Tuning of the search engine regarding the prior art search task.

From: Development and tuning of an original search engine for patent libraries in medicinal chemistry

Strategy

Tuning

P0

MAP

Impact of the description field

Description

2.20%

1.34%

 

No description

2.87%

1.52%

Impact of the metadata field

No metadata

3.64%

1.93%

 

Metadata on TAC

3.63%

1.92%

 

Metadata on TACD

2.87%

1.52%

Impact of the weighting model

PL2

2.87%

1.52%

 

BM25

5.36%

3.47%

Impact of the co-citation network

Without re-ranking

5.36%

3.47%

 

With re-ranking

6.76%

4.22%

Impact of the use of IPC codes

No IPC codes

6.76%

4.22%

 

IPC codes

5.88%

3.66%

  1. The best tuning for each strategy is displayed in bold. P0 indicates the top-precision and MAP represents the mean average precision.