An Integrated Ontology-Based Approach for Patent Classification in Medical Engineering

Abstract

Medical engineering (ME) is an interdisciplinary domain with short innovation cycles. Usually, researchers from several fields cooperate in ME research projects. To support the identification of suitable partners for a project, we present an integrated approach for patent classification combining ideas from topic modeling, ontology modeling & matching, bibliometric analysis, and data integration. First evaluation results show that the use of semantic technologies in patent classification can indeed increase the quality of the results.