Patentee Name Harmonisation - ecoom.be
Patentee Name Harmonisation - ecoom.be
Patentee Name Harmonisation - ecoom.be
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"TECHNOLOGIES" 7,587 "TECHNOLOGY"<br />
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Implementation<br />
Implementation is again very simple and straightforward. All identified spelling variations in<br />
Table 22 are transferred into search and replace statements or rules as in the previous steps.<br />
All identified and validated occurrences of spelling variations are harmonized by executing a<br />
program that reads the search and replace statements or rules, and executes an update query<br />
on the data to replace the given keyword (spelling variation) with a given string (harmonized<br />
word), while at the same time updating a new field to contain the found spelling variation.<br />
Result<br />
Spelling variations have <strong>be</strong>en harmonized in 45,715 names.<br />
By and large, not all spelling and language variations have <strong>be</strong>en harmonized; only the most<br />
commonly used ones were identified by using the full text index. A more in-depth analysis of<br />
the indexes could reveal additional words safe to harmonize.<br />
Impact<br />
From 385,771 unique names to 384,235 unique names, an additional reduction of 1,536 names,<br />
or a total reduction of 59,487 names (13.4%).<br />
2.4 Condensing<br />
Description<br />
After implementing all previous cleaning steps, a significant num<strong>be</strong>r of variations are still<br />
present <strong>be</strong>cause of alternative spellings caused by separation or punctuation characters and all<br />
other kinds of non-alphanumerical characters that are not relevant to identify a name (e.g. “3<br />
COM” and “3COM”, and “AAF-MCQUAY”, “AAF MCQAY” and “AAF – MCQAY”).<br />
Analysis<br />
Condensing names by simply removing all non-alphanumerical characters and spaces and<br />
leaving only letters and num<strong>be</strong>rs is enough to reduce many variations without introducing<br />
mismatches.<br />
Implementation<br />
All non-alphanumerical characters are removed by executing a program that reads the names<br />
character by character, removing all characters not in the range of a-z, A-Z and 0-9.<br />
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