Evaluation of IPRs using Modern Sentimental Analysis Methods in the Law Domain

Abstract

Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) provide a systematic medium to safeguard people's unique ideas. Various authors from all around the globe have contributed to the IPRs in the Law domain by publishing their research articles. Although the literature on the IPRs in the Law domain is found to be several decades old, no Sentimental Analysis has been conducted on it. Identifying this significant research gap, the authors of this research paper have evaluated the IPRs using modern Sentimental Analysis methods in the Law domain. The authors have used Sentimental Analysis methods of Microsoft Azure, Valence Aware Dictionary and Sentiment Reasoner (VADER), and International Business Machines (IBM) Watson to perform this Sentimental Analysis on over six thousand research articles from the past four decades, in which authors from over fifty countries have contributed to the IPR in the Law domain. The authors used significant research paper components, including the Title, Keywords, and overall Contribution of the authors, as input for conducting this Sentimental Analysis. The overall results obtained from Sentimental Analysis methods of Microsoft Azure, VADER, and IBM Watson convey that 83.25 % positive, 13.11 % neutral, and 3.64 % negative research was conducted in the IPRs research in the Law domain. These results convey that, to date, the research in the IPRs of the law domain has been going in a positive direction, thereby providing a solution-oriented positive approach for the upcoming researchers in the IPRs of the law domain.