With the ever increasing number of filed patent applications every year, the need for effective
and efficient systems for managing such tremendous amounts of data becomes inevitably …

Patent classification is an essential task in patent information management and patent
knowledge mining. However, this task is still largely done manually due to the unsatisfactory …

Patent classification is an expensive and time-consuming task that has conventionally been
performed by domain experts. However, the increase in the number of filed patents and the …

More than ever, technical inventions are the symbol of our society's advance. Patents
guarantee their creators protection against infringement. For an invention being patentable …

Intellectual property and the patent system in particular have been extremely present in
research and discussion, even in the public media, in the last few years. Without going into …

Patents show how technology evolves in most scientific fields over time. The best way to use
this valuable knowledge base is to use efficient and effective information retrieval and …

This paper gives an overview of several different approaches that have been applied by
participants in the CLEF-IP evaluation initiative. On this basis, it is suggested that other …

Prior art searching is a critical and knowledge-intensive step in the examination process of a
patent application. Historically, the approach to automated prior art searching is to determine …

Scientific discovery is the process of successful scientific inquiry that allows us to develop
new technologies, solve practical problems, and aid decision-making. This process is a non …

Text analytics represent a set of scalable techniques that mine unstructured and semi-
structured textual resources in order to extract useful knowledge for performing a task at …