id: 05821114 dt: a an: 05821114 au: Lopez, Patrice; Romary, Laurent ti: PATATRAS: Retrieval model combination and regression models for prior art search. so: Peters, Carol (ed.) et al., Multilingual information access evaluation I. Text retrieval experiments. 10th workshop of the cross-language evaluation forum, CLEF 2009, Corfu, Greece, September 30 ‒ October 2, 2009. Revised selected papers. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-15753-0/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6241, 430-437 (2010). py: 2010 pu: Berlin: Springer la: EN cc: ut: ci: li: doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15754-7_51 ab: Summary: This paper presents PATATRAS (PATent and Article Tracking, Retrieval and AnalysiS), a system realized at the Humboldt University for the IP track of CLEF 2009. Our approach presents three main characteristics: 1 The usage of multiple retrieval models and term index definitions for the three languages considered in the present track producing ten different sets of ranked results. 1 The merging of the different results based on multiple regression models using an additional training set created from the patent collection. 1 The exploitation of patent metadata and the citation structures for creating restricted initial working sets of patents and for producing a final re-ranking regression model. The resulting architecture allowed us to exploit efficiently specific information of patent documents while remaining generic and easy to extend. rv: