Natural Language Processing in the Patent Domain: A Survey

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Patents, which encapsulate crucial technical and legal information in text form and referenced drawings, present a rich domain for natural language processing (NLP) applications.

• As NLP technologies evolve, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated outstanding capabilities in general text processing and generation tasks.
• However, the application of LLMs in the patent domain remains under-explored and under-developed due to the complexity of patents, particularly their language and legal framework.
• Understanding the unique characteristics of patent documents and related research in the patent domain becomes essential for researchers to apply these tools effectively.