In the last few years we have observed a proliferation of approaches for clustering XML
documents and schemas based on their structure and content. The presence of such a huge …

Patent maps showing competition trends in technological development can provide valuable
input for decision support on research and development (R&D) strategies. By introducing …

Given that in terms of technology novel inventions are crucial factors for companies; this
article contributes to the identification of inventions of high novelty in patent data. As …

Schema Matching, ie the process of discovering semantic correspondences between
concepts adopted in different data source schemas, has been a key topic in Database and …

Understanding the evolution of a technological field in the course of time is a key task in
technology analysis. Analysts in research institutions as well as in companies need to know …

Memory-based collaborative filtering (CF) makes recommendations based on a collection of
user preferences for items. The idea underlying this approach is that the interests of an …

Schema matching plays a central role in a myriad of XML-based applications. There has
been a growing need for developing high-performance matching systems in order to identify …

The measurement of textual patent similarities is crucial for important tasks in patent
management, be it prior art analysis, infringement analysis, or patent mapping. In this paper …

For certain tasks in patent management it makes sense to apply a quantitative measure of
textual similarity between patents and/or parts thereof: be it the analysis of freedom to …

A novel sentence similarity measure for semantic based expert systems is presented. The
well-known problem in the fields of semantic processing, such as QA systems, is to evaluate …