Griffin, TD; Boyer, SK; Councill, IG. 2010. Annotating Patents with Medline MeSH Codes via Citation Mapping. ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY 680: 737-744

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Griffin, TD; Boyer, SK; Councill, IG. 2010. Annotating Patents with Medline 
MeSH Codes via Citation Mapping. ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY 
680: 737-744.

Author Full Name(s): Griffin, Thomas D.; Boyer, Stephen K.; Councill, Isaac G.
Book series title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
Language: English
Document Type: Article
Author Keywords: MeSH; Pubmed; Patent; Medline; Citation

Abstract: Both patents and Medline are important document collections for 
discovering new relationships between chemicals and biology, searching for 
prior art for patent applications and retrieving background knowledge for 
current research activities. Finding relevance to a topic within patents is often 
made difficult by poor categorization, badly written descriptions, and even 
intentional obfuscation. Unlike patents, the Medline corpus has Medical Subject 
Heading (MeSH) keywords manually added to their articles, giving a medically 
relevant taxonomy to the 18 million article abstracts. Our work attempts to 
accurately recognize the citations made in patents to Medline-indexed articles, 
linking them to their corresponding PubMed ID and exploiting the associated 
MeSH to enhance patent search by annotating the referencing patents with 
their Medline citations' MeSH codes. The techniques, system features, and 
benefits are explained.

Addresses: [Griffin, Thomas D.] IBM Almaden Res Ctr, San Jose, CA 95120 USA
Reprint Address: Griffin, TD, IBM Almaden Res Ctr, San Jose, CA 95120 USA.

E-mail Address: tdg at us.ibm.com
ISSN: 0065-2598
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-5913-3_82
URL: http://www.springerlink.com/content/q482p3713nkt4341/