Is It Novel and Why? Fine-Grained Patent Novelty Prediction Based on Passage Retrieval.

@inproceedings{kurtz-2026-novel, author = {Michael J. Kurtz and Valentin Knappich and Annemarie Friedrich and Yuanqing Yu and Anna H\"{a}tty and Michael J. Kurtz and Valentin Knappich and Simon Razniewski and Annemarie Friedrich and Yuanqing Yu}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Is It Novel and Why? Fine-Grained Patent Novelty Prediction Based on Passage Retrieval}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {845--856}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809576}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809576} }