Patent ID: 7907140

Claim:
A system for correlating data with events derived from text mining comprising: a text analysis engine recorded in an electronic memory and configured to: (1) parse unstructured text by: assigning parts of speech tags to a set of words of the unstructured text; grouping together a noun with one or more modifiers; extracting verb and noun phrases on the basis of semantic requirements; recognizing entities; matching nominal phrases that contain entities as arguments; and providing rule-based extraction of patterns at a full sentence or phrase level, and (2) based on said parsed unstructured text, automatically extract a plurality of events from the unstructured text; and an application server program recorded in the electronic memory and configured to: (1) receive data indicating a time period and a parameter, the parameter concerning an entity, (2) retrieve an event previously extracted automatically from the unstructured text, the event relating to the entity within the time period, and (3) output event data for concurrent display with the parameter during the time period.