Text mining applied to patent mapping: A practical business case

World Patent Information

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 335-342

  Fattori, Michele ^a   Pedrazzi, Giorgio ^b   Turra, Roberta ^b  

^a Tetra Pak Carton Ambient   (Italy)

^b CINECA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clustering techniques; Competitive intelligence; Data mining; Intellectually assigned patent classifications; Linguistic technology; Packaging technology; Patent analysis; Patent mapping; Results validation; Text mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242467783     PISSN: 01722190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0172-2190(03)00113-3     Document Type: Article

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