Abstracts of Patent Specifications

Analysis of Patent Abstracts

Text analysis involves the deconstruction of information within a text. This includes text structure, text pattern, linguistic features, lexical analysis, and syntactic analysis. This research took as its starting point the bottom-up approach of analysing the lexical features, syntactic features, and textual features of patent abstracts for comprehensive coverage of text analysis. Several tools...

Generation of patent abstracts: a challenge for automatic text summarization

It is well known that patents drive the modern economies. But they do even more: patents also serve as a valuable and unique source of up-to-date scientific and technological information. It is assumed that only 10% to 15% of the content presented in patents are described in other publications as well. The worldwide stock of patents thus comprises about 85% to 90% of scientific knowledge. Given...

Automated Generation of Timestamped Patent Abstracts at Scale to Outsmart Patent-Trolls

The fundamental idea of patent systems is to protect inventors who have invested resources during the development of their invention. Patent trolls abuse these systems by filing obvious patents with significantly less cost and usually without the intention to produce or offer the invention. Instead, patent trolls sue other companies that allegedly violate their obvious patents. We propose a met...

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Domain Dependence of Lexical Translation: A Case Study of Patent Abstracts

The domain dependence of translations of nouns in English-to-Japanese patent translation is examined using an automatic method for identifying major translations from a pair of language corpora in the same domain. The method calculates the ratio of the number of associated words of a target word that suggest each translation of the target word to the total number of associated words. This ratio...