  This paper presents an automatic approach to creating taxonomies of technical
terms based on the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC). The resulting
taxonomy contains about 170k nodes in 9 separate technological branches and is
freely available. We also show that a Text-to-Text Transfer Transformer (T5)
model can be fine-tuned to generate hypernyms and hyponyms with relatively high
precision, confirming the manually assessed quality of the resource. The T5
model opens the taxonomy to any new technological terms for which a hypernym
can be generated, thus making the resource updateable with new terms, an
essential feature for the constantly evolving field of technological
terminology.
