Applied Sciences (Aug 2024)

A Knowledge Graph-Based Implicit Requirement Mining Method in Personalized Product Development

  • Zhenchong Mo,
  • Lin Gong,
  • Jun Gao,
  • Haoran Cui,
  • Junde Lan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/app14177550
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 17
p. 7550

Abstract

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In the context of crowd innovation and the generative design driven by big language models, the exploration of personalized requirements has become a key in significantly improving product innovation, concept feasibility, and design interaction efficiency. To mine a large number of vague and unexpressed implicit requirements of personalized products, a domain knowledge graph-based method is proposed in this research. First, based on the classical theory of design science, the characteristics and categories of personalized implicit requirements are analyzed, and the theoretical basis of implicit requirement mining is formed. Next, in order to improve the practicability and construction efficiency of the domain knowledge graph, a more informative ontology is constructed, and better-performing natural language processing (NLP) models are proposed. Then, a multi-category personalized implicit requirement mining method based on a knowledge graph is proposed. Finally, a platform was developed based on the technical solution proposed in this study, and an example verification was conducted in the field of electromechanical engineering. The efficiency improvement of the training model proposed in the research was analyzed, and the practicality of implicit requirement mining methods are discussed.

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