IPC prediction of patent documents using neural network with attention for hierarchical structure.

International patent classifications (IPCs) are assigned to patent documents; however, since the procedure for assigning classifications is manually done by the patent examiner, it takes a lot of time and effort to select some IPCs from about 70,000 IPCs. Hence, some research has been conducted on p...

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Main Authors: Yuki Hoshino, Yoshimasa Utsumi, Yoshiro Matsuda, Yoshitoshi Tanaka, Kazuhide Nakata
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2023-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282361