4 papers
Reasoning for Hierarchical Text Classification: The Case of Patents
Lekang Jiang, Wenjun Sun, Stephan Goetz
Hierarchical text classification (HTC) assigns documents to multiple levels of a pre-defined taxonomy. Automated patent subject classification represents one of the hardest HTC sce…
Enriching Patent Claim Generation with European Patent Dataset
Lekang Jiang, Chengzu Li, Stephan Goetz
Drafting patent claims is time-intensive, costly, and requires professional skill. Therefore, researchers have investigated large language models (LLMs) to assist inventors in writ…
Towards Better Evaluation for Generated Patent Claims
Lekang Jiang, Pascal A Scherz, Stephan Goetz
Patent claims define the scope of protection and establish the legal boundaries of an invention. Drafting these claims is a complex and time-consuming process that usually requires…
Patent-CR: A Dataset for Patent Claim Revision
Lekang Jiang, Pascal A Scherz, Stephan Goetz
This paper presents Patent-CR, the first dataset created for the patent claim revision task in English. It includes both initial patent applications rejected by patent examiners an…