Workshop Schedule


Time Event
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome address
09:10 - 10.30

Benchmarking Natural Language Processing Algorithms for Patent Summarization


Silvia Casola and Alberto Lavelli

Automatic Generation of Explanatory Text from Flowchart Images in Patents


Hidetsugu Nanba, Shohei Kubo and Satoshi Fukuda
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40

Ensemble Method for Classification in Imbalanced Patent Data


Eleni Kamateri and Michail Salampasis

Patent Classification on Search-Optimized Graph-Based Representations


Jarkko Lagus, Ekaterina Kotliarova and Sebastian Björkqvist
11:40 - 12:30 Group discussions: LLMs and Patent data, Knowledge Graphs for Patent Data
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:15

Patent Summary Evaluation Experiment - are AI generated summaries good?

For five patents in the text mining domain we show you four summaries, one of it curated by a human expert. Please evaluate the quality of the summaries.

Click here to access the summaries.

14:15 - 15:00 Summarization Session
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:40

Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Highlighting and Searching in Patent Text


Renukswamy Chikkamath, Rana Fassahat Ali, Christoph Hewel and Markus Endres

Exploring the Impact of Negative Sampling on Patent Citation Recommendation


Rima Dessi, Hidir Aras and Mehwish Alam

A Patent Semantic Representation Using Technical Compound Sentences


Shuxuan Xiang, Jin Mao and Gang Li
16:40 - 17:00 Conclusions and Outlook PatentSemTech 2024

Workshop Registration

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