Abstract
Methods for automatically isolating and extracting bibliographic references from the full texts of patents are described and evaluated; these include citations both to patents and to other bibliographic sources. Patents are unusual as citing documents in that citations occur principally in the text of the abstracts or description parts of the documents, rather than as footnotes or in separate sections. A template mining approach has been developed for this purpose, to relieve patent examiners of the chore of doing this manually. The sub-languages of citations in patents are examined, and the development of templates for the extraction of cita-tions to patents, journal articles, books and other sources in English-language patents described, as well as the evaluation of the degree of success of the approach.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 423-436 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Journal of Information Science |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 1996 |
Keywords
- template mining
- citations
- patents