Towards Comprehensive Patent Approval Predictions:Beyond Traditional Document Classification (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | a new framework for patent approval prediction is proposed to address this problem . novelty scores are based on comparing an application with millions of prior arts . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that unifies the document classifier with handcrafted features, particularly time-dependent novelty scores. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework unifies the document classifier with handcrafted features, particularly time-dependent novelty scores. |
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