Patent ID: 11960845
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. A system comprising:
a memory having computer readable instructions; and
one or more processors for executing the computer readable instructions, the computer readable instructions controlling the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving at least one electronic communication comprising emoticons having a non-original meaning;
determining a candidate meaning for the emoticons having the non-original meaning in the at least one electronic communication, the determining based at least in part on token neighborhood distribution structures, wherein the token neighborhood distribution structures comprise a first topological graph comprising first nodes and a second topological graph comprising second nodes, the first nodes being emoticon tokens as pictorial representations, the second nodes being plaintext tokens as words in plain text; and
causing the candidate meaning for the emoticons having the non-original meaning to be displayed on at least one device.