@inproceedings{tinsley-etal-2012-iptranslator,
    title = "{IPT}ranslator: Facilitating Patent Search with Machine Translation",
    author = "Tinsley, John  and
      Ceausu, Alexandru  and
      Zhang, Jian  and
      Depraetere, Heidi  and
      Van de Walle, Joeri",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Commercial MT User Program",
    month = oct # " 28-" # nov # " 1",
    year = "2012",
    address = "San Diego, California, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Machine Translation in the Americas",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2012.amta-commercial.17/",
    abstract = "Intellectual Property professionals frequently need to carry out patent searches for a variety of reasons. During a typical search, they will retrieve approximately 30{\%} of their results in a foreign language. The machine translation (MT) options currently available to patent searchers for these foreign-language patents vary in their quality, consistency, and general level of service. In this article, we introduce IPTranslator; an MT web service designed to cater for the needs of patent searchers. At the core of IPTranslator is a set of MT systems developed specifically for translating patent text. We describe the challenges faced in adapting MT technology to such a complex domain, and how the systems were evaluated to ensure that the quality was fit for purpose. Finally, we present the framework through which the IPTranslator service is delivered to users, and the value-adding features which address many of the issues with existing solutions."
}