Toward an automatic extraction of idm concepts from patents

Abstract

This paper presents a new approach for knowledge extraction from patent document for the use of design engineers. It is based on the Inventive Design Method (IDM) which derives from TRIZ, the theory of inventive problem solving whose goal is to theorize on the act of inventing partly on the bases of patent's observation. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that it is possible to automatically extract IDM concepts from patent document, using generic linguistic markers. This paper is the continuation of a previous work and mainly focuses on the retrieval of parameters which characterize the main components of contradictions related to an artifact evolution bottlenecks. © Springer-Verlag London 2013.