Extraction of Keywords of Novelties From Patent Claims

Shoko Suzuki, Hiromichi Takatsuka


Abstract
There are growing needs for patent analysis using Natural Language Processing (NLP)-based approaches. Although NLP-based approaches can extract various information from patents, there are very few approaches proposed to extract those parts what inventors regard as novel or having an inventive step compared to all existing works ever. To extract such parts is difficult even for human annotators except for well-trained experts. This causes many difficulties in analyzing patents. We propose a novel approach to automatically extract such keywords that relate to novelties or inventive steps from patent claims using the structure of the claims. In addition, we also propose a new framework of evaluating our approach. The experiments show that our approach outperforms the existing keyword extraction methods significantly in many technical fields.
Anthology ID:
C16-1113
Volume:
Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
Month:
December
Year:
2016
Address:
Osaka, Japan
Editors:
Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
Venue:
COLING
SIG:
Publisher:
The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
Note:
Pages:
1192–1200
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/C16-1113
DOI:
Bibkey:
Cite (ACL):
Shoko Suzuki and Hiromichi Takatsuka. 2016. Extraction of Keywords of Novelties From Patent Claims. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 1192–1200, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
Cite (Informal):
Extraction of Keywords of Novelties From Patent Claims (Suzuki & Takatsuka, COLING 2016)
Copy Citation:
PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/C16-1113.pdf