Similarity-based approach for inventive design solutions assistance

Xin Ni (), Ahmed Samet () and Denis Cavallucci ()
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Xin Ni: ICUBE/CSIP, INSA de Strasbourg
Ahmed Samet: ICUBE/SDC, INSA de Strasbourg
Denis Cavallucci: ICUBE/CSIP, INSA de Strasbourg

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2022, vol. 33, issue 6, No 7, 1698 pages

Abstract: Abstract With the increasing demand for inventive products, finding out inventive design solutions hidden in different industrial engineering domains has always been a challenge for engineers. In addition, patent documents are full of the latest inventive knowledge inside. In this paper, we rely on the assumption that an engineering problem may have an inventive practical solution in another scientific domain as long as they are similarly described. Therefore, we focus on applying machine learning techniques, more particularly neural networks to determine the similarity between patent problems. Technically, a trained bidirectional LSTM neural network, called Manhattan LSTM is integrated into our approach named SAM-IDM to predict the similarity between sentences. We experimentally show that Manhattan LSTM outperforms other baseline approaches in a labelled sample dataset of SNLI corpus. We then experiment our approach on a real-world U.S. patent dataset and we demonstrate that it presents promising results in terms of sentence similarity matching and inventiveness. An inventive design case is detailed to illustrate its performance and practicality.

Keywords: TRIZ; Similarity computation; Inventive design solution; Patent analysis; Neural networks; LSTM networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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