Authors:
Sandra Geisler
1
;
Rihan Hai
1
and
Christoph Quix
2
Affiliations:
1
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
;
2
Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, Germany
Keyword(s):
Ontology Engineering, Patent Analysis, Ontology Matching.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Business Analytics
;
Cardiovascular Technologies
;
Computing and Telecommunications in Cardiology
;
Data Engineering
;
Decision Support Systems
;
Decision Support Systems, Remote Data Analysis
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Engineering and Technology Applications
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Ontology Engineering
;
Ontology Matching and Alignment
;
Ontology Sharing and Reuse
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Successful research and development projects start with finding the right partners for the venture. Especially
for interdisciplinary projects, this is a difficult task as experts from foreign domains are not known. Furthermore,
the transfer of knowledge from research into practice is becoming more important in research projects
to enable the quick application of research results. This is in particular relevant for projects in medical engineering.
Patents and publications contain technical knowledge which can be exploited to find suitable experts.
Patents are usually more product-oriented as the inventors have to describe an application area and products
might be protected by patents. On the other hand, scientific publications represent the state-of-the-art in research.
The challenge is finding the right mixture of research- or application-oriented experts from different
domains. Hence, we propose a recommender system for experts for a certain topic based on patent topic
clustering, o
ntologies, and ontology matching, which maps patents to corresponding innovation fields. The
medical engineering domain serves as a first test bed, since projects in this area are highly interdisciplinary.
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