The aim of "Technological Idea Miner" is to identify (semi-) automatically new technological ideas and inventions in unstructured text.

Version 1.5

Developed by Dirk Thorleuchter, Fraunhofer INT, Appelsgarten 2, D-53879 Euskirchen, Germany.

The Technological Idea Miner uses uses perl/ruby and functions from TAPoRware tools (e.g. tokenization) developed by Geoffrey Rockwell, Lian Yan and Matt Patey from the Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University, Canada supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation.