Improved Technology Similarity Measurement in the Medical Field based on Subject-Action-Object Semantic Structure: A Case Study of Alzheimer's Disease

This article presents an improved method of measuring technology similarity by introducing a subject-action-object (SAO) analysis that uses the feature weights of semantic structure and professional vocabulary to measure technology similarity in the medical field. First, the SAO semantic structures...

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Published inIEEE transactions on engineering management Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 280 - 293
Main Authors Li, Rongrong, Wang, Xuefeng, Liu, Yuqin, Zhang, Shuo
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.01.2023
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Alzheimer's disease
Empirical analysis
Measurement methods
Portfolios
Research and development
Semantics
Similarity
subject-action-object (SAO) semantic structure
technology similarity
Technology utilization
term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF)
unified medical language system (UMLS)
Unified modeling language
Vocabulary
Weight measurement
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Abstract This article presents an improved method of measuring technology similarity by introducing a subject-action-object (SAO) analysis that uses the feature weights of semantic structure and professional vocabulary to measure technology similarity in the medical field. First, the SAO semantic structures are extracted and cleaned; then the structures related to technology are identified using a semantic network of the unified medical language system (UMLS). Second, the similarity between the SAO semantic structures is evaluated using semantic information from the Metathesaurus of the UMLS. Third, the feature weights of the SAO semantic structure are introduced to represent the importance of the patentees' technology features. Finally, using the SAO and weight information, each patentee's vector is constructed to measure the technology complementarity between different patentees. This study conducts empirical research on Alzheimer's disease. The results indicate that the propose method for measuring technology similarity enables finer distinctions with more reliable outcomes than the traditional methods that are based on keywords and international patent classification.
AbstractList This article presents an improved method of measuring technology similarity by introducing a subject-action-object (SAO) analysis that uses the feature weights of semantic structure and professional vocabulary to measure technology similarity in the medical field. First, the SAO semantic structures are extracted and cleaned; then the structures related to technology are identified using a semantic network of the unified medical language system (UMLS). Second, the similarity between the SAO semantic structures is evaluated using semantic information from the Metathesaurus of the UMLS. Third, the feature weights of the SAO semantic structure are introduced to represent the importance of the patentees’ technology features. Finally, using the SAO and weight information, each patentee's vector is constructed to measure the technology complementarity between different patentees. This study conducts empirical research on Alzheimer's disease. The results indicate that the propose method for measuring technology similarity enables finer distinctions with more reliable outcomes than the traditional methods that are based on keywords and international patent classification.
Author Wang, Xuefeng
Zhang, Shuo
Li, Rongrong
Liu, Yuqin
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SubjectTerms Alzheimer's disease
Empirical analysis
Measurement methods
Portfolios
Research and development
Semantics
Similarity
subject-action-object (SAO) semantic structure
technology similarity
Technology utilization
term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF)
unified medical language system (UMLS)
Unified modeling language
Vocabulary
Weight measurement
Title Improved Technology Similarity Measurement in the Medical Field based on Subject-Action-Object Semantic Structure: A Case Study of Alzheimer's Disease
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