MUMBAI, India, Nov. 21 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202421038907 A) filed by Tata Consultancy Services Limited, Maharashtra, on May 17, 2024, for 'method and system for topic-based classification of scientific papers to research proposal.'

Inventor(s) include Palit, Rudra Nath; Patwardhan, Manasi Samarth; Vig, Lovekesh; and Shroff, Gautam.

The application for the patent was published on Nov. 21, under issue no. 47/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and system for classification of scientific papers to research proposal based on topic. A constructed dataset with a positive and negative reference text spans are augmented to obtain an extended dataset. Top-k chunks 10 from a reference paper relevant to the citation text are considered as the reference text spans. A topic-based retriever model is trained on subset of the extended dataset by the positive reference text span, and the negative reference text span. A topic classifier model is trained using research proposal title, the proposal topic, and the reference text span from the reference paper to classy if the reference paper is 15 aligned to the topic. A reference paper to be relevant to the proposal topic is classified with corresponding topics in the research proposal."

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