26. The computer-based system of claim 25 , wherein the re-ranking module is further adapted to generate for each of the first set of candidate patent documents a set of feature scores associated with the set of patent features, the re-ranking module being adapted to re-rank to generate the second set of ranked patent documents based at least in part on the set of feature scores.
26. The computer-based system of claim 25 , wherein the re-ranking module is further adapted to generate for each of the first set of candidate patent documents a set of feature scores associated with the set of patent features, the re-ranking module being adapted to re-rank to generate the second set of ranked patent documents based at least in part on the set of feature scores. 28. The computer-based system of claim 26 , wherein one or more of the set of feature scores is normalized.