4. Conclusion
We presented HITEC, an automated text classifier and its application categorize to English and German patent collections of WIPO under the IPC taxonomy. IPC covers all areas of technology and is currently used by the industrial property offices of many countries. Patent classification is indispensable for the retrieval of patent documents in the search for prior art. Such retrieval is crucial to patent-issuing authorities, potential inventors, research and development units, and others concerned with the application or development of technology. An efficient automated patent classifier is crucial component in providing an automated classification assistance system for categorizing patent applications in the IPC, that is a main aim at WIPO Fall et al., 2002. HITEC can be a prominent candidate for this purpose.
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Tikk, D., Biró, G., Yang, J.D. (2005). Experiment with a Hierarchical Text Categorization Method on WIPO Patent Collections. In: Attoh-Okine, N.O., Ayyub, B.M. (eds) Applied Research in Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis. International Series in Intelligent Technologies, vol 20. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-23550-7_13
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