Task-based information seeking and retrieval in the patent domain: processes and relationships
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1
INTRODUCTION
......................................................................................13
1.1
The work task and the IS&R tasks
...............................................................15
1.2
The patent work domain
...............................................................................16
1.3
The goal of the study, and its research problem and methods
......................18
1.4
Thesis structure and the research process
.....................................................19
1.5
List of publications
.......................................................................................21
BACKGROUND
2
STUDY OF REAL-WORLD WORK-TASK-RELATED IS&R
...........25
2.1
The concepts of task and work task
..............................................................25
2.2
Information access in the work task setting
..................................................28
2.3
Approaches to information access
................................................................29
2.4
Research on information seeking
.................................................................30
2.5
Information retrieval research
......................................................................36
2.6
Patent
IR
research
.........................................................................................42
2.7
Collaborative information search
.................................................................46
2.8
Information use
.............................................................................................49
2.9
Summary
.......................................................................................................49
SETTING
RESEARCH SETTING AND RESEARCH QUESTIONS
....................53
3.1
The purpose of the study
..............................................................................53
3.2
Overview of the study
..................................................................................54
3.3
Research questions
.......................................................................................55
DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS METHODS
...........................59
4.1
Qualitative and quantitative methods
...........................................................60
4.1.1
Concerns
.........................................................................................61
4.2
The process-based approach
.........................................................................62
4.3
Data collection: An outline
...........................................................................63
4.4
The research process and levels
....................................................................65
4.5
Data collection and
datasets
.........................................................................66
4.5.1
Enquiry
-
senior patent experts
.......................................................67
4.5.2
Pilot
-
verifying and testing the study s design
..............................67
4.5.3
Group introduction and tutorial
-
patent engineers
.........................68
4.5.4
Interviews
........................................................................................68
4.5.5
Participatory observation
................................................................69
4.5.6
Electronic diaries
............................................................................69
4.5.7
Construction of an electronic diary
.................................................70
4.5.8
Logging of data
...............................................................................71
4.5.9
Summary of the types of data collected
..........................................71
4.6
Data analysis
.................................................................................................73
RESULTS
5
THE PATENT DOMAIN
...........................................................................83
5.1
The Swedish Patent and Registration Office
................................................83
5.2
Types of patent applications
.........................................................................84
5.3
Patent document structure
............................................................................85
5.4
General types of patent search
......................................................................89
5.5
The patent document: Relevance aspects and criteria
..................................90
5.6
The patent classification system
...................................................................92
5.7
The patent application handling process: A general model
..........................94
6
DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE WORK AND IS&R
TASK PROCESSES
...................................................................................99
6.1
Work task performance
..............................................................................100
6.1.1
Domain goals
................................................................................100
6.1.2
Types of formal patent work tasks
................................................101
6.1.3
Types of patent applicants
.............................................................102
6.1.4
Types of application preparation
...................................................102
6.1.5
Task constraints
............................................................................102
6.1.6
Task completion time for observed tasks
-
scale of days
.............103
6.1.7
Task completion time for observed tasks
-
scale of hours
............104
6.1.8
Perceived overall work task difficulty or task knowledge
............104
6.1.9
Task structuring
............................................................................105
6.1.10
Problem formulation
.....................................................................105
6.1.11
The patent engineer s domain knowledge
.....................................106
6.1.12
User effort
-
collaboration
............................................................108
6.2
Information seeking and retrieval task performance
..................................109
6.2.1
Perceived information need
..........................................................109
6.2.2
Planning related to information needs
..........................................110
6.2.3
Change in information needs
........................................................110
6.2.4
Decomposition of information needs
............................................
Ill
6.2.5
Expressed information need as single or multiple needs
..............
Ill
6.2.6
Expressed information need as a narrative
....................................112
6.2.7
PA document components needed for formulation of the
information need
...........................................................................112
6.2.8
Types
ofinformation
needed
........................................................113
6.2.9
Number of sources selected
..........................................................114
6.2.10
Source types and their combination
..............................................114
6.2.11
Source content type
.......................................................................115
6.2.12
Number of unique terms expressed
...............................................116
6.2.13
Number of types of query elements
..............................................116
6.2.14
Number of synonyms and terms per session
.................................116
6.2.15
Number of terms per query string
.................................................117
6.2.16
Combination of types of search elements within a query
.............117
6.2.17
Number of unique classification codes
.........................................118
6.2.18
Relevance: Relevance judgements in TPP stages
.........................119
6.2.19
Relevance: Applications of relevance judgements
.......................120
6.2.20
Relevance: Elements judged to be relevant
..................................121
6.2.21
Relevance: RJ degrees in the various types of tasks
.....................121
6.3
The task completion stage
-
information use
.............................................122
6.3.1
Types
ofinformation
sources used
...............................................123
6.3.2
Types
ofinformation
components used
........................................123
CROSS-TABULATION AND RELATIONSHIPS
...............................125
7.1
Work task level
...........................................................................................125
7.1.1
Patent engineer and knowledge types
...........................................125
7.1.2
Task planning
................................................................................126
7.2
The IS&R task
............................................................................................128
7.2.1
Information need
...........................................................................128
7.2.2
Source
...........................................................................................130
7.2.3
Query formulation
.........................................................................132
7.2.4
Relevance judgement
....................................................................133
7.2.5
Patent task completion
..................................................................136
7.2.6
Connecting relationships
...............................................................136
COLLABORATIVE SEARCH ACTIVITIES
.......................................139
8.1
Document-related collaborative activities
..................................................139
8.2
Human-related collaborative activities
.......................................................140
8.3
Collaboration in IS&R processes
...............................................................141
8.4
Types of collaborative activities
.................................................................143
A METHOD FOR ANALYSING AND DESCRIBING SEARCH
SESSIONS IN INTERACTIVE
IR
.........................................................151
9.1
Search session processes
............................................................................151
9.2
A method for describing search processes
.................................................152
9.3
Task-specific search processes
...................................................................157
CLOSING
10
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS
....................................................167
10.1
The patent domain and patent IS&R phenomena
.......................................167
10.2
A framework for patent IS&R
....................................................................171
10.3
Relationships in patent IS&R
.....................................................................173
10.4
Collaborative information search
...............................................................176
10.5
The methodological approach
....................................................................180
10.6
Limitations
..................................................................................................183
10.7
Conclusions
................................................................................................184
10.8
Future work
................................................................................................186
REFERENCES
................................................................................................188
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure
1.1:
The research process
..............................................................................20
Figure
2.1:
Task performance and relationships between the task levels in this
study
.......................................................................................................28
Figure
2.2:
General levels
ofinformation
access
.....................................................29
Figure
2.3:
Traditional
IR
model
..............................................................................37
Figure
2.4:
The two-level scenario description framework
......................................40
Figure
3.1:
Study set-up and application of variables
..............................................55
Figure
4.1 :
The data collection process and overview of the analysis methodology..
65
Figure
4.2:
The data analysis process
.......................................................................73
Figure
4.3:
Example
6 -
types of sources
................................................................74
Figure
4.4:
Research
steps and handling of data
......................................................79
Figure
5.1:
Example of two claims, from patent application SE980062
1-1999......87
Figure
5.2:
Example of an image, from patent application SE9800621-1999
........ 88
Figure
5.3:
Example of a summary, from patent application SE9800621-1999
......88
Figure
5.4:
Simplified process model for the relevance judgement procedure
........92
Figure
5.5:
IPC classification system
.......................................................................93
Figure
5.6:
The data flow process in pre-processing of a patent application
atSPRO
.................................................................................................95
Figure
5.7:
General conceptual model of the patent handling process at SPRO
......96
Figure
6.1:
Analysis framework
...............................................................................99
Figure
7.1:
Knowledge types
.................................................................................126
Figure
7.2:
Work task planning
..............................................................................127
Figure
7.3:
Information need variables
..................................................................129
Figure
7.4:
Source types
.........................................................................................131
Figure
7.5:
Query formulation
...............................................................................132
Figure
7.6:
Relevance judgement
...........................................................................135
Figure
7.7:
Task completion
...................................................................................136
Figure
7.8:
Extended relationship of domain knowledge
.......................................136
Figure
7.9:
Extended relationship of task knowledge
............................................137
Figure
7.10:
Extended relationship of applicant
......................................................137
Figure
7.11:
Extended relationship of change of information need
.........................137
Figure
7.12:
Extended relationship of expressed information need
.........................137
Figure
7.13:
Extended relationship of document elements judged for relevance
.... 138
Figure
8.1 :
Classes of collaborative group activities according to O Day
and Jeffries (1993b), enhanced with two new classes
.........................148
Figure
8.2:
Detailed classes of collaborative group activities
................................149
Figure
9.1:
Schematic visualisation of a query sequence with two search sessions
.. 153
Figure
9.2:
Schematic visualisation of a sequence of sessions
..............................155
Figure
9.3:
Schematic visualisation of a query sequence with
CIR
activity
..........156
Figure
9.4:
Schematic visualisation of a query sequence with used object activity
.157
Figure
9.5:
Schematic diagram of the process of Task
107
(A task)
.....................159
Figure
9.6:
Schematic diagram of the process of Task
106
(PCT1 task) -part
1.. 160
Figure
9.7:
Schematic diagram of the process of Task
106
(PCT1 task)
-
part
2.. 161
Figure
10.1:
The information need process
..............................................................169
Figure
10.2:
Illustration of relevance judgement strategies
.....................................170
Figure
10.3:
Framework for the patent handling process
.........................................172
Figure
10.4:
Schematic overview of dependencies between categories of variables..
176
Figure
10.5 :
Framework of the patent handling process, including
CIR
.................179
LIST OF TABLES
Table
4.1:
Summary of the quantity of data collected for analysis
.........................73
Table
4.2:
Example of a table with normalised values
...........................................78
Table
6.1:
Categorisation of domain goals and their frequency
...........................101
Table
6.2:
Distribution of completion times (scale of days) by number of tasks
. 103
Table
6.3:
Distribution of completion times (scale of hours) by number of tasks
.. 103
Table
6.4:
Distribution of perceived overall work task difficulty
(task knowledge) by task type
.............................................................104
Table
6.5:
Distribution (percentage) of task structuring by task type
...................105
Table
6.6:
Distribution of problem formulation clarity for information needed
across task types
..................................................................................106
Table
6.7:
Distribution of patent engineer domain knowledge by task type
.........106
Table
6.8:
Distribution of change of information need by task type
.....................110
Table
6.9:
Distribution of information need decomposition by task type
.............111
10
Table
6.10:
Distribution
of
information
need
expression
by task type in terms
of single or multiple information needs stated
.....................................112
Table
6.11:
Distribution of source type selection by task type
...............................114
Table
6.12:
Distribution of the stage of RJ by task type in terms of numbers
of relevance judgements made during task stages
...............................119
Table
6.13:
Distribution of relevance judgement strategy application by task type...
120
Table
6.14:
Distribution
(%)
of types of document elements judged for
relevance across task type
....................................................................121
Table
6.15:
Distribution of information components used by task type
in terms of average percentage of components used
...........................124
Table
8.1:
Activities by collaborative categories through the IS&R process stages
141
Table
8.2:
Distribution of document- and human-related collaborative
activities across knowledge types and main work task stages
.............143
Table
9.1 :
Comparison of data for three task processes:
106, 107,
and
109.........161
List of Appendices
Appendix A: Classification of variables by task level
...............................................201
Appendix B: Interview form
.....................................................................................203
Appendix C: Note form for observation
....................................................................205
Appendix D: Task performance electronic diary activity log
...................................207
Appendix E: Task-based protocol for data analysis, Section A: Internal task
information
..........................................................................................208
Appendix F: Excerpt from the matrix
.......................................................................211
Appendix G: Results: Descriptive analysis of work and IS&R task processes
.........213
Appendix H: Cross-tabulation analysis
.....................................................................219
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