TechDiscovery works with languages other than English, however shorter technology descriptions of less than 10-15 words are suggested, for example “fridges with ice dispensers” or “noise-cancelling headphones”. Longer requests should be only in English.
Why is this?
TechDiscovery has three methods to pick up information for the search. Patent Numbers, longer text input for example a paragraph of text, and also a short technology description.
The short technology description uses machine learning models to generate additional information for vectorization to then run the similarity search. The machine learning model is language agnostic therefore other language input will work in this mode if the description is no more than 10-15 words.