Function-based patent retrieval for concept design

IEEM2010 - IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 348-351

  Wu, Hongtao ^a,b   Yang, Haobo ^a   Ma, Jianhong ^a,b   Tan, Runhua ^a,b  

^a HEBEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Hebei Province Engineering Research Center for Innovative Method to Manufacturing   (China)

Author keywords

Design stimuli; Functional basis; Functional keywords; Patent retrievals; Query expansion

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT DESIGNS; CROSS-DOMAIN; ENGINEERING PROBLEMS; FUNCTIONAL BASIS; FUNCTIONAL KEYWORDS; HYPERNYMS; PATENT RETRIEVAL; QUERY EXPANSION; WORDNET;

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; PATENTS AND INVENTIONS; SEMANTICS;

DESIGN;

EID: 78751689379     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2010.5674304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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