Simplify patent search with image comparison

Patent research is usually difficult and time-consuming. Comparing individual patents is often laborious. Our project ExpResViP aims to improve access to patents independent of language and technology. For this purpose, a visual search for patent retrieval is developed, which uses automatic recognition of image similarities and text-image relations by means of machine learning.

Patentsuche vereinfachen mit Bildvergleichen

Patentrecherche ist meist schwierig und aufwändig. Der Vergleich einzelner Patente ist oft mühselig. Unser Projekt ExpResViP will den von Sprache und Technologie unabhängigen Zugang zu Patenten verbessern. Hierfür wird eine visuelle Suche für das Patentretrieval entwickelt, die automatische Erkennung von Bildähnlichkeiten und Text-Bild-Bezüge mittels maschineller Lernverfahren nutzt.

How scientific publishers reacted to the Russo-Ukrainian war

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is negatively affecting the development of the Ukrainian academy, now and in the near future. Different academic stakeholders around the world, including scientific publishers, have reacted differently to this war, some imposing sanctions against Russia and/or providing aid to Ukraine, some refraining from such actions for various reasons. We try to take a closer look at the situation.

Academic and Research libraries in Ukraine: main tasks and best practices 

Starting from March 2022, TIB’s Open Science Lab has been hosting three scholars from Ukraine, whose research were disturbed by the war. In the first week of July, an introductory webinar, dedicated to Research and Academic libraries of Ukraine was conducted. Accordingly, this blog post is meant to serve as a brief report of the webinar.

Language Discourse in the context of Natural Language Processing – A Quick Look

Discourse takes various modalities, structures, and mediums. Among the commonly experienced mediums are face-to-face chats, telephone conversations, television news broadcasts, radio news, talk shows, lectures, books, and scientific articles. Intriguingly, each of these forms of discourse follow a logical structural nuance depending on the medium. The advancement of the digital age including social media communication has further led to expansion of logical discourse structures. These include blog-posts, emails, websites, review sites of products, hotels, restaurants or movies, and, finally, social media streams such as Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, #slack channels, Q&A portals such as Quora or Stack Overflow, etc., with a growing list as new mediums of communication over the World Wide Web are invented.
Large and varied streams of natural discourse only mean an even larger body of research questions remains to be explored!