Finding new technological ideas and inventions with text mining and technique philosophy
Dirk Thorleuchter · Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) · 2025
Text mining refers generally to the process of deriving high quality information from unstructured texts. Unstructured texts come in many shapes and sizes. It may be stored in research papers, articles in technical periodicals, reports, documents, web pages etc. Here we introduce a new approach for finding textual patterns representing new technological ideas and inventions in unstructured technological texts.