Patent ID: 8180713

Claim:
A system for alerting an analyst to the presence of risk indicative information in a source report, the system comprising: a processor; a content surveillance subsystem including: at least two text analysis software modules trained with training segments extracted from historical financial reporting documents, each training segment comprising a previously observed representation of an expression of information indicative of an actual financial risk, said content surveillance subsystem being constructed and arranged to score segments of the source report based on the closeness of each segment to one or more training segments; and a virtual committee operable to combine the scores of each of the at least two text analysis software modules; and an alert subsystem in communication with said content surveillance subsystem and including a report generator and an alert notifier, wherein the report generator is constructed and arranged to generate a report and said the alert notifier is constructed and arranged to transmit the alert to the analyst, wherein the alert and the report comprise one or more risk indicative segments extracted from the source report by the text analysis software module where the one or more risk indicative segments in the alert are each associated with a score above a pre-determined threshold.