IPM
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
The number of patent documents is currently rising rapidly worldwide, creating the need for an automatic categorization system to replace time-consuming and labor-intensive manual...
IPM
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Through the recent NTCIR workshops, patent retrieval casts many challenging issues to information retrieval community. Unlike newspaper articles, patent documents are very long an...
IPM
2007
13 years 4 months ago
2007
Patent documents contain important research results. However, they are lengthy and rich in technical terminology such that it takes a lot of human efforts for analyses. Automatic...
JOI
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
The relationship between science and technology has been extensively studied from both theoretical and quantitative perspectives. Quantitative studies typically use patents as pro...
EOR
2006
13 years 4 months ago
2006
We used the so-called deterministic annealing algorithm due to Rose and Gurewitz by the classification of patent documents. A C++ program based on this algorithm was run first on s...
ESWA
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Many methods have been developed to recognize those progresses of technologies, and one of them is to analyze patent information. And visualization methods are considered to be pr...
ECIS
2003
13 years 5 months ago
2003
The issue of software patents is widely discussed in Europe today. The standard economic rationale for patents is to protect potential innovators from imitation, which ultimately ...
JURIX
2007
13 years 6 months ago
2007
Abstract. In this paper, we present a new ontology-based formalism for representing patent information. The framework defines concepts and relations for the major aspects of paten...
LREC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
ny other kind of text structures is as notoriously difficult to read as patents
LREC
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
In aiming at research and development on machine translation, we produced a test collection for Japanese-English machine translation in the seventh NTCIR Workshop. This paper desc...