Re: [PIUG List] Beyond Keywords: Concept searching for patents [5x]

Hi Jeremy,

Good effort there.

One early web-based patent search system which I
still fondly missed is Mapit, a novel and useful
system invented by the good people from MNIS.

Among many prior arts in the area of concept
search, you may find these of interest:
    * Barbara J. Grosz, Natural language
processing, Artificial Intelligence, Volume 19,
Issue 2, October 1982, Pages 131-136
    * Method and apparatus for natural language
processing (1984): http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=EP00180888A2
    * Method for resolution of natural-language
queries against full-text databases (1992):
http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=EP00597630A1
    * Management and analysis of document
information text (1996): http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=WO09816890A1
    * Database analysis using a probabilistic
ontology (1998): http://www.delphion.com/details?pn=WO09931606A1
As far as NLP is concerned, we've come a
relatively long way and still some distant to go
before we 'solve' pragmatic analysis. Let's persevere.

At 03:35 AM 4/22/2008, Mail wrote:
>Please comment on whether you think this is useful, who might
> want it, or why it's a waste of time.
>
>A friend and I researching a new way to search for patents at UT
> Austin. We call the new method "Concept Searching."
>
> Currently people are forced to search on terms that are tied to form.
> By the nature of the English language, it is very easy to create many
> different descriptions for products that perform the same essential
> functions. Our algorithm can parse plain text into (partial, but
> useful) conceptual models as well as the implicit customer needs from
> the patent description. This enables two or more products that may
> appear to be different based on architecture or layout, to be
> functionally compared to determine true novelty or uniqueness.
> Conceptual models are universal, machine readable, and have a
> one-to-one correspondence with products.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Jeremy Guillory
>jeremy.guillory_at_gmail.com
>
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