Patent document collections are an immense source of knowledge for research and
innovation communities worldwide. The rapid growth of the number of patent documents …

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 …

In large technology companies, the requirements for managing and organizing technical
documents created by engineers and managers have increased dramatically in recent …

An important task when a patent application arrives at a patent office is to assign one or
more classification codes. This manual, intellectually demanding task needs to be supported …

This paper scrutinizes the act of patent classification as it is performed by specialists, namely
patent examiners, and currently supported by automated systems in patent offices for …

Patent examiners need to solve a complex information retrieval task when they assess the
novelty and inventive step of claims made in a patent application. Given a claim, they search …

Hierarchical text classification has been receiving increasing attention due to its vast range
of applications in real-world natural language processing tasks. While previous approaches …

With the aim of facilitating internal processes as well as search applications, patent offices
categorize documents into taxonomies such as the Cooperative Patent Categorization. This …

Patent classification has long been regarded as a crucial task in patent information
management and patent knowledge mining. In recent years, studies combining deep …

Hierarchical classification schemes are an effective and natural way to organize large
document collections. However, complex schemes make the manual classification time …