Aligning Patent Claims with Detailed Descriptions for Readability
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چکیده
Patent specifications consist of patent claims and detailed descriptions. While patent claims are the most important part of patent specifications, they are compositionally or combinationally described and difficult to read. By aligning patent claims with detailed description, the readability of patent claims can be improved because paraphrases for the claims can be found. In this paper, we propose a method to align patent claims with detailed descriptions by analyzing the structure of claims to get core elements of claims, aligning between each core element in the claim and each sentence in the detailed description, and filtering the result based on the existence of “effectiveness expressions” in the sentence.
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