• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04c
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• pp.516-518
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• 2003

본 논문은 특허 문서에 맞게 벡터스페이스 모델을 적용하여 특허정보 검색기를 구현한다. 기존의 상용 특허 검색 시스템의 문제점을 제시하고, 특허 문헌의 특징을 분석하여, 이를 반영한 특허 문헌 검색등의 벡터 스페이스 모델을 제시한다. 하나의 특허 문서는 서로 상이한 특성을 지닌 텍스트와 데이터의 조합으로 이루어져 있다. 따라서 이를 하나의 벡터로 표현하는 것이 용이하지 않다. 이에 대해 본 연구에서는 내용 필드들을 특성에 따라 둘 이상의 벡터로 표현하고, 수치 및 고유명 필드는 불린검색형태로 처리되는 혼합형 벡터 모델을 제안한다. 각 필드의 특징에 맞게 색인어를 추출하며, 텍스트 필드의 색인어률 벡터로 표현하는 과정에서는 잘 알려진 TF-IDF 가중치를 사용하되, 특허 문서가 IPC 특허 분류 기준에 따라 완전 분류되어 있는 문서라는 특징을 이용, 보다 정확한 가중치를 부여한다. 실험과 성능평가를 통하여 제안한 특허 모델의 유용성을 보인다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.77-88
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• 2017

Recently, with the advent of knowledge based society where information and knowledge make values, patents which are the representative form of intellectual property have become important, and the number of the patents follows growing trends. Thus, it needs to classify the patents depending on the technological topic of the invention appropriately in order to use a vast amount of the patent information effectively. IPC (International Patent Classification) is widely used for this situation. Researches about IPC automatic classification have been studied using data mining and machine learning algorithms to improve current IPC classification task which categorizes patent documents by hand. However, most of the previous researches have focused on applying various existing machine learning methods to the patent documents rather than considering on the characteristics of the data or the structure of patent documents. In this paper, therefore, we propose to use two structural fields, technical field and background, considered as having impacts on the patent classification, where the two field are selected by applying of the characteristics of patent documents and the role of the structural fields. We also construct multi-label classification model to reflect what a patent document could have multiple IPCs. Furthermore, we propose a method to classify patent documents at the IPC subclass level comprised of 630 categories so that we investigate the possibility of applying the IPC multi-label classification model into the real field. The effect of structural fields of patent documents are examined using 564,793 registered patents in Korea, and 87.2% precision is obtained in the case of using title, abstract, claims, technical field and background. From this sequence, we verify that the technical field and background have an important role in improving the precision of IPC multi-label classification in IPC subclass level.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.5 no.9
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• pp.419-424
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• 2016

Named entity recognition is required to improve the retrieval accuracy of patent documents or similar patents in the claims and patent descriptions. In this paper, we proposed an automatic named entity recognition for patents by using a conditional random field that is one of the best methods in machine learning research. Named entity recognition system has been constructed from the training set of tagged corpus with 660,000 words and 70,000 words are used as a test set for evaluation. The experiment shows that the accuracy is 93.6% and the Kappa coefficient is 0.67 between manual tagging and automatic tagging system. This figure is better than the Kappa coefficient 0.6 for manually tagged results and it shows that automatic named entity tagging system can be used as a practical tagging for patent documents in replacement of a manual tagging.