Patent semantics : analysis, search and visualization of large text corpora

Abstract

Patent Semantics is system for processing text documents by extracting features capturing their semantic content, and searching, clustering, and relating them by those same features. It is set apart from existing methodologies by combining a visualization scheme that integrates retrieval and clustering, providing a variety of ways to find and relate documents depending on their goals. In addition, the system provides an explanatory mechanism that makes the retrieval an understandable process rather than a black box. The domain in which the system currently works is biochemistry and molecular biology patents but it is not intrinsically constrained to any document set.