Multilingual Patent Retrieval

ID: 
UC-71
Workpackage: 
Case Study: Patents
Relevant Deliverables: 
Patent MT and Retrieval Prototype Beta
Goal: 
The goal of this use case is to obtain patent documents according to the user criteria. These criteria may be specified using different interfaces such as: natural language querying, SPARQL or a graphical interface.

The actor in multilingual patent retrieval is a web user seeking information about a patent. The goal of such actor is to use his/her own language (A) to obtain data that may be written in another language (B).

Actors: