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June 4, 2026Design ScienceOpen Access

Knowledge of technological artifacts: Toward linguistic and structural foundations from patent descriptions

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LSL. SiddharthJLJianxi Luo

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Overview

Analysis of patent descriptions reveals linguistic structures and limitations in knowledge retrieval methods.

Key Points

  • This study aims to explore the linguistic and structural foundations underlying knowledge of technological artifacts through patent descriptions.
  • Analyzed 33,881 patent descriptions from various technology domains.
  • Extracted entity-relationship triplets at the sentence level to populate knowledge graphs.
  • Identified dominant subgraph patterns and syntactic structures in artifact descriptions.
  • Uncovered linguistic patterns that highlight construction of entities and relationships in patents.
  • Identified 3-node and 4-node subgraph motifs indicating local relationship combinations.
  • Found that prevailing descriptions only convey abstract technical knowledge, limiting effective knowledge retrieval.

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Siddharth et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a21171dd499ed480b16ff8fhttps://doi.org/10.1017/dsj.2026.10064
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