Patent ID: 8930377
Filing Date: 2015-01-06
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for creation of term taxonomies by mining web-based user generated content, comprising: a network interface enabling access to one or more sources of information connected to a network; a mining unit for collecting textual content from the one or more sources of information and generating phrases, the mining unit is further configured to identify in the generated phrases sentiment phrases and non-sentiment phrases based on a semantic meaning and context of each of the generated phrases in the collected textual content, each of the identified sentiment phrases includes one or more words describing a sentiment, the sentiment being any one of a positive sentiment, a neutral sentiment, and a negative sentiment, each of the positive sentiment, the neutral sentiment, and the negative sentiment is associated with a different score, wherein each of the generated sentiment phrases includes one or more words that do not describe a sentiment, wherein a sentiment phrase within a non-sentiment phrase is a non-sentiment phrase; wherein the mining unit is further configured to perform a cleaning process on the identified sentiment phrases and non-sentiment phrases, wherein the cleaning process includes at least conversion of common misspelled phrases that appear in the textual content; an analysis unit for generating a plurality of term taxonomies, wherein the analysis unit is configured to generate a term taxonomy of the plurality of term taxonomies by creating at least associations between a non-sentiment phrase of the identified non-sentiment phrases and a sentiment phrase of the identified sentiment phrases, wherein an association between the non-sentiment phrase and the at least one corresponding sentiment phrase is a term taxonomy, wherein the analysis unit is further configured to provide a trend report respective of a term taxonomy of the generated term taxonomies; a non-transitory data warehouse storage medium connected to the network for storing the plurality of generated term taxonomies, wherein responsive to a query the system provides a sentiment of a non-sentiment phrase provided in the query; and an alert unit for generating an alert responsive of the trend report.