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Modelling semantic similarity plays a fundamental role in lexical semantic applications. A natural way of calculating semantic similarity is to access handcrafted semantic networks, but similarity prediction can also be anticipated in a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Dongqiang Yang , Yanqin Yin

Patents, which encapsulate crucial technical and legal information in text form and referenced drawings, present a rich domain for natural language processing (NLP) applications. As NLP technologies evolve, large language models (LLMs) have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Lekang Jiang , Stephan Goetz

With the use of ontologies in several domains such as semantic web, information retrieval, artificial intelligence, the concept of similarity measuring has become a very important domain of research. Therefore, in the current paper, we…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-09-27 Noreddine Gherabi , Abdelhadi Daoui , Abderrahim Marzouk

Sentence similarity is considered the basis of many natural language tasks such as information retrieval, question answering and text summarization. The semantic meaning between compared text fragments is based on the words semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Issa Atoum , Ahmed Otoom , Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer

Calculating the semantic similarity between sentences is a long dealt problem in the area of natural language processing. The semantic analysis field has a crucial role to play in the research related to the text analytics. The semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Atish Pawar , Vijay Mago

In patent prosecution, image-based retrieval systems for identifying similarities between current patent images and prior art are pivotal to ensure the novelty and non-obviousness of patent applications. Despite their growing popularity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Hao-Cheng Lo , Jung-Mei Chu , Jieh Hsiang , Chun-Chieh Cho

The focus of this paper is the calculation of similarity between two concepts from an ontology for a Human-Like Interaction system. In order to facilitate this calculation, a similarity function is proposed based on five dimensions (sort,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-21 Esperanza Albacete , Javier Calle , Elena Castro , Dolores Cuadra

Comparing document semantics is one of the toughest tasks in both Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval. To date, on one hand, the tools for this task are still rare. On the other hand, most relevant methods are devised from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Yuqi Kong , Fanchao Meng , Benjamin Carterette

The ability to compare the semantic similarity between text corpora is important in a variety of natural language processing applications. However, standard methods for evaluating these metrics have yet to be established. We propose a set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-30 George Kour , Samuel Ackerman , Orna Raz , Eitan Farchi , Boaz Carmeli , Ateret Anaby-Tavor

Determining semantic similarity between academic documents is crucial to many tasks such as plagiarism detection, automatic technical survey and semantic search. Current studies mostly focus on semantic similarity between concepts,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Ming Liu , Bo Lang , Zepeng Gu

Recent advances in Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated transformative capabilities across diverse domains. The field of patent analysis and innovation is not an exception, where natural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Homaira Huda Shomee , Zhu Wang , Sathya N. Ravi , Sourav Medya

As the Internet help us cross cultural border by providing different information, plagiarism issue is bound to arise. As a result, plagiarism detection becomes more demanding in overcoming this issue. Different plagiarism detection tools…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-25 Chow Kok Kent , Naomie Salim

Computing similarity between two legal documents is an important and challenging task in the domain of Legal Information Retrieval. Finding similar legal documents has many applications in downstream tasks, including prior-case retrieval,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Paheli Bhattacharya , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Arindam Pal , Saptarshi Ghosh

A key capability in managing patent applications or a patent portfolio is comparing claims to other text, e.g. a patent specification. Because the language of claims is different from language used elsewhere in the patent application or in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Matthias Blume , Ghobad Heidari , Christoph Hewel

Patents are legal documents that aim at protecting inventions on the one hand and at making technical knowledge circulate on the other. Their complex style -- a mix of legal, technical, and extremely vague language -- makes their content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Silvia Casola , Alberto Lavelli , Horacio Saggion

We introduce a family of paper and author similarity measures based on the concept that papers are more similar if they are more likely to be retrieved during a literature search following backward and forward citations. Since this browsing…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Attila Varga , Sadamori Kojaku , Filipi Nascimento Silva

Assessing the novelty of patent claims is a critical yet challenging task traditionally performed by patent examiners. While advancements in NLP have enabled progress in various patent-related tasks, novelty assessment remains unexplored.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Hayato Ikoma , Teruko Mitamura

This article presents a measure of semantic similarity in an IS-A taxonomy based on the notion of shared information content. Experimental evaluation against a benchmark set of human similarity judgments demonstrates that the measure…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-05-30 P. Resnik

Binary code similarity comparison is a methodology for identifying similar or identical code fragments in binary programs. It is indispensable in fields of software engineering and security, which has many important applications (e.g.,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Yikun Hu , Hui Wang , Yuanyuan Zhang , Bodong Li , Dawu Gu

Novelty assessment is a critical yet complex task in the examination process for patent acceptance, requiring examiners to determine whether an invention is disclosed in a prior art document. The process involves intricate matching between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Valentin Knappich , Anna Hätty , Simon Razniewski , Annemarie Friedrich