¹（四川大学公共管理学院信息管理与技术系 成都 610064）
²（中国科学院成都文献情报中心 成都 610041）

从“数据整理和概念分组”、“列表或直方图”、“比较矩阵”、“有结构数据聚类”、“无结构数据聚类”、“文档聚类地图”、“引文分析”以及“SAO”8个方面介绍当前国外主要的专利分析工具的功能及特色，并进行比较研究，为专利分析人员选取适当的工具以及软件公司改进专利分析工具提供参考。

¹(Department of Information Management and Technology, School of Public Administration, Sichuan University,Chengdu 610064, China)
²（Chengdu Library of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu 610041, China）

This paper introduces fifteen foreign patent information software analysis tools based on list cleanup,concept grouping,list generation,co-occurrency matrices,data clustering,mapping document clusters,citation analysis and SAO. And summarizes some valuable information for patent information analyst to choose proper tools and for software analysis tool provider to improve these tools.

TP319   G353.1

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