Abstract Recent advancements in Natural Language Processing have opened up new
possibilities for the development of large language models like ChatGPT, which can …

In the past two decades, there has been increasing use of semantic networks in engineering
design for supporting various activities, such as knowledge extraction, prior art search, idea …

Having passed the primitive phases and starting to revolutionize many different fields in
some way, artificial intelligence is on its way to becoming a disruptive technology. It is also …

Generating novel and useful concepts is essential during the early design stage to explore a
large variety of design opportunities, which usually requires advanced design thinking ability …

Data-driven conceptual design methods and tools aim to inspire human ideation for new
design concepts by providing external inspirational stimuli. In prior studies, the stimuli have …

We review the scholarly contributions that utilise natural language processing (NLP)
techniques to support the design process. Using a heuristic approach, we gathered 223 …

There are growing efforts to mine public and common-sense semantic network databases
for engineering design ideation stimuli. However, there is still a lack of design ideation aids …

In order to develop novel solutions for complex systems and in increasingly competitive
markets, it may be advantageous to generate large numbers of design concepts and then to …

The rapid growth of data and the requirement of designers to track massive data to obtain
design stimuli have posed challenges to conceptual design, thereby promoting the …

The patent database is often used by designers to search for inspirational stimuli for
innovative design opportunities because of the large size, extensive variety, and the …