Hunting Trolls with Neo4j! by Max De Marzi.
Max quotes from a video found by Alison Sparrow:
What we tried to do with it, is bypass any sort of keyword processing in order to find similar patents. The reason we’ve done this is to avoid the problems encountered by other systems that rely on natural language processing or semantic analysis simply because patents are built to avoid detection by similar keywords…we use network topology (specifically citation network topology) to mine the US patent database in order to predict similar documents.
The “note pad” in the demonstration would be more useful if it produced a topic map that merged results from other searchers.
Auto-magically creating associations based on data extracted from the patent database would be a nice feature as well.
Maybe I should get some sticky pads printed up with the logo: “You could be using a topic map!” 😉
(Let me know how many sticky pads you would like and I will get a quote for them.)