Natural language processing of patents and technical documentation

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3163, Issue , 2004, Pages 508-520

  Cascini, Gaetano ^a   Fantechi, Alessandro ^b   Spinicci, Emilio ^b  

^a Dipartimento di Meccanica e Tecnologie Industriali   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA MINING; FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; SYNTACTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CONTENT ANALYSIS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS; SUBJECT ACTION OBJECT (SAO); SYNTACTIC PARSERS; TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATIONS; TEXT MINING;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846956240     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-28640-0_48     Document Type: Article

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