Patent MT and Retrieval Prototype

The present document is Deliverable D7.2 of WP7. It gives a description of the multilingual patents retrieval prototype produced in this workpackage and a brief user manual to access the demo.

The main highlights achieved in the prototype with respect to the beta version described in the Deliverable 7.1\cite{d71} are the following: a) The demo allows for querying the system in the three languages addressed in this WP (English, French and German); b) the patents in the database has original text in English, French and German and also the translated documents for all missing languages of each document; c) the patent document translation can be done following a simple pipeline; d) some improvements on the interface addressed several deficiencies detected during internal evaluation; e) the new query library and its application to the patents use case have been presented at the Third Workshop on Controlled Natural Language (CNL 2012 (http://attempto.ifi.uzh.ch/site/cnl2012/), being held in Zurich at the end of August 2012.