Offering New Insights by Harmonizing Patents, Taxonomies and Linked Data

Abstract

Patent classification schemes such as the International Patent Classification maintained by the World Intellectual Property Organization are of vital importance for patent searchers, because they usually act as an entry point for the search process. We present methods for augmenting patents by assigning them to classes of a different classification scheme, i.e. a science taxonomy derived from the Wikipedia Science Portal. For each scientific discipline contained in the portal, descriptive keywords are extracted from the linked Web pages. These keywords are used to identify relevant patents and associate them to the appropriate scientific disciplines. Additional to that we augment the patents with data sets from the Linking Open Data (LOD) project. The ontology and the data sets of the LOD cloud are part of the Patent Taxonomy Integration and Interaction Framework, which is a flexible approach allowing for the integration of different patent ontologies enabling a wide range of interaction methods.

Appendix: Specific Terms for Spina bifida

The following list of terms was automatically generated for the class Spina bifida using a document frequency of one:

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