Patent ID: 8788261

Claim:
A method for predicting a value of a variable associated with a target word or set of words, performed on at least one computer and comprising the steps of: collecting a text corpus comprising a set of words that include the target word, generating a representation of the text corpus, creating a semantic space for the set of words, based on the representation of the text corpus, defining, for a location in the semantic space, a value of the variable, estimating, for the target word, a value of the variable, based on the semantic space and the defined variable value of the location in the semantic space, and calculating, by the computer, a predicted value of the target word, on basis of the semantic space, the defined variable value of the location in the semantic space and the estimated variable value of the target word, wherein the estimating of the target word variable value comprises performing regression analysis having the target word variable value as a dependent variable.