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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2010.10.4.433

Analysis of Technology Trends from Words in Patent Titles  

Kim, Tae-Jung (한국과학기술정보연구원)
Lee, Myung-Sun (한국과학기술정보연구원)
Choi, Ho-Nam (한국과학기술정보연구원)
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The Journal of the Korea Contents Association / v.10, no.4, 2010 , pp. 433-437 More about this Journal
Abstract
Patent contains meaningful technical achievement. There are many cases explaining technology trends from the analysis of frequency of term. Term sometimes has different meaning on fields. In this paper, words from patent titles of US, Japan, Korea PCT and EPO are collected by the 5 categories of WIPO. Frequency changes rate of each word were calculated and high ranked words of 5 categories were analyzed to find relationship between patent and technology development as well as technology trends.
Keywords
Patent Title; Word Frequency; Technology Trends Analysis;
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