CAS STNext® Coffee Lecture Searching substance names in Chinese patent documents

A trivial product name for a drug, agrochemical, or cosmetic ingredient is represented in a Chinese patent document by its Chinese characters. However, most machine translation tools do not correctly translate this name back to English. Searching these substances in Chinese full-text sources provides a significant loss of recall.

In this session, we will explore a few examples and share how CAS STNext’s included content and features can help overcome this challenge.

What you will learn:

• The databases in CAS STNext that contain Chinese patent information
• How value-added databases boost your search

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