Patent ID: 7570262

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 using a multi-level natural language processing system, wherein said multi-level natural language processing system comprises a first layer configured to assign parts of speech tags to each word of the unstructured text; a second layer configured to group together a noun with one or more modifiers; a third layer configured to extract verb and noun phrases on the basis of semantic requirements; a fourth layer configured to recognize entities; a fifth layer configured to match nominal phrases that contain entities as arguments; and a sixth layer configured to provide rule-based extraction of patterns at a full sentence or phrase level, and (2) based on said parsing, 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) display an indication of the event superimposed on a display representing the parameter during the time period.