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. 2014 Jan 10;15(Suppl 1):S15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-S1-S15

Table 1.

Tuning of the search engine regarding the prior art search task.

Strategy Tuning P0 MAP
Impact of the description field Description 2.20% 1.34%
No description 2.87% 1.52%

Impact of the metadata field No metadata 3.64% 1.93%
Metadata on TAC 3.63% 1.92%
Metadata on TACD 2.87% 1.52%

Impact of the weighting model PL2 2.87% 1.52%
BM25 5.36% 3.47%

Impact of the co-citation network Without re-ranking 5.36% 3.47%
With re-ranking 6.76% 4.22%

Impact of the use of IPC codes No IPC codes 6.76% 4.22%
IPC codes 5.88% 3.66%

The best tuning for each strategy is displayed in bold. P0 indicates the top-precision and MAP represents the mean average precision.