WordNet: a lexical database for English
Communications of the ACM
DIVA: a visualization system for exploring document databases for technology forecasting
Computers and Industrial Engineering
A patent document retrieval system addressing both semantic and syntactic properties
PATENT '03 Proceedings of the ACL-2003 workshop on Patent corpus processing - Volume 20
On the development of a technology intelligence tool for identifying technology opportunity
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
The Stanford typed dependencies representation
CrossParser '08 Coling 2008: Proceedings of the workshop on Cross-Framework and Cross-Domain Parser Evaluation
An automated method for identifying TRIZ evolution trends from patents
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
An SAO-based text mining approach to building a technology tree for technology planning
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Triggering navigators for innovative system design: The case of lab-on-a-chip technology
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Detecting weak signals for long-term business opportunities using text mining of Web news
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
A patent intelligence system for strategic technology planning
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
How to identify the trends of services: GTM-TT service map
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Technology intelligence systems are vital components for planning of technology development and formulation of technology strategies. Although such systems provide computation supports for technology analysis, much effort and intervention of experts, who may be expensive or unavailable, is required in gathering processes of information for analysis. As a remedy, this paper proposes TrendPerceptor, a system that uses a property-function based approach. The proposed system assists experts (1) to identify trends in invention concepts from patents, and (2) to perform evolution trend analysis of patents for technology forecasting. For this purpose, a module of the system uses grammatical analysis of textual information to automatically extract properties and functions, which show innovation directions in a given technology. Using the identified properties and functions, a module for invention concept analysis based on network analysis and a module for evolution trend analysis based on TRIZ (Russian acronym of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) trends are suggested. This paper describes the architecture of a system composed of these three modules, and illustrates two case studies using the system.