Patent ID: 8165997

Claim:
A method for classifying a previously unclassified posting, comprising: extracting a plurality of terms from the previously unclassified posting on an application forum; calculating, by at least one computer processor, a term answer probability for each term of the plurality of terms, wherein the term answer probability defines a probability that the term is in an answer posting assigned to an answer class; calculating, by the at least one computer processor, a term comment probability for each term of the plurality of terms, wherein the term comment probability defines a probability that the term is in a comment posting assigned to a comment class; performing a Bayesian analysis using the term answer probability for each term of the plurality of terms and the term comment probability for each term of the plurality of terms to select a posting class for the previously unclassified posting, wherein the posting class is one of the answer class and the comment class; and assigning, by the at least one computer processor, the posting class to the previously unclassified posting.