How does Exploratory Search work?
This feature analyzes your input text and uses multiple algorithm streams (which include machine learning and natural language processing capabilities) to find similar, relevant patents and non-patent documents. Additionally, the power of CAS indexing is leveraged further enhancing the unique ability of the proprietary AI-enhanced exploratory search to find relevant documents.
How does adding a structure to my search text affect my results?
This works by resolving your structure to a CAS RN and matching it to similar CAS RNs. These RNs are sent to the AI substance similarity stream which finds similarly shaped substances and the documents in which those substances are indexed. These documents are considered with all of the other documents found by the AI engine, and those matching your search text and your structure are proposed as highly relevant selections.
What are the suggested key terms?
These are a list of terms from your input text that are considered to be important by our proprietary AI-enhanced natural language processing tools.
What does it mean to emphasize a suggested key term?
When you select one or more key terms for emphasis within your search, the system boosts these and related terms more heavily when scoring and ranking. As a result, new documents may appear in your answer set while prior documents containing your selected key terms will be more highly ranked to varying degrees.
Can I get results for any text input?
When you supply the minimum amount of text required, you will get a set of matching documents. Exploratory search is optimized to work with natural language text, e.g., claims or abstract text. The more specific and complete your description, the better your set of matching documents.
How many results will I get?
You will get up to 100 patent and 100 journal documents. These will be presented as two lists (patents and journals) of ranked results from most relevant to least relevant.
What documents are searched? When are these updated?
The content for exploratory search is an extensive independent collection of patents (including non-chemistry patents) and non-patent literature (resourced from CAplus and MEDLINE). This unique content set is updated weekly.
How does the priority date affect my analysis?
The priority date is an additional input that influences your results. If you want to see anything that has been published that may be relevant to your text, set the priority date to today. If you only want to see results before a certain date, set the priority date accordingly (documents newer than your priority date will not be shown). The system will also use this date as one of many factors in determining result relevance; documents with priority dates close to the priority date that you designate may be determined to be of higher relevance than older documents.
Why do I see different results when I run the same analysis later?
The content collection is updated weekly, so before and after updates your search results will vary.
Sometimes when I do a crossover, the document titles in CAPlus are different. Why is this?
The enhanced CAPlus titles that you may be accustomed to are not yet available in the viewer. Accession numbers will match between the viewer and CAPlus.
How can I launch an exploratory search on a specific patent?
This capability is the prior art analysis feature available from the menu found when clicking a patent number in other STNext result detail displays. However, entering a patent umber in the exploratory search text window will not produce the same results. You must enter at least 200 characters of natural language text for exploratory search.
How long can I save my results?
Exploratory search results can be saved for 2 years. Results may also be downloaded in .xls format for your convenience.
How often should I rerun this analysis?
The content collection is updated weekly so running your search on a weekly schedule would yield the first opportunity to monitor change.
Is my Exploratory Search activity confidential?
STNext Exploratory Search is built on the CAS Ethical Approach to AI which recognizes the importance of pairing technology with expertise and integrity to support the advancement of science in ways that reflect the values of the global research community. Each interaction is thoughtfully designed to support and enhance human expertise—not replace it. STNext Exploratory Search enhances our customers’ user experience. We know our customers are using our products, such as STNext, to conduct sensitive, proprietary research. This feature does not change the highest standards implemented by CAS to maintain confidentiality of user activities. For more information, please refer to our Privacy Policy and the STNext Terms of Use.