User Requirements

The patents case study comprises two basic scenarios: the online patent retrieval and the patent translation. In this prototype we tackle these two scenarios separately, as shown in Figure 1, even though they can be viewed as a unique multilingual patent retrieval paradigm. In the future, we plan to study how to automate the reciprocal inputs between the two processes, i.e. the annotation of translations and the translation of semantically annotated documents.

From a general perspective, two user roles may be defined in this case study: end-users looking for information related to the patents and editors adding new patent documents to a hypothetical repository.

Details are given in D71.