Patent ID: 8117207

Claim:
A system for evaluating a review having unstructured text, the system comprising: a processor; a segment splitter for separating at least a portion of the unstructured text into one or more segments, each segment comprising one or more words; a segment parser coupled to the segment splitter for assigning one or more lexical categories to one or more of the one or more words of each segment; an information extractor coupled to the segment parser for identifying, based on the one or more lexical categories, a feature word and an opinion word contained in the one or more segments; and a sentiment rating engine coupled to the information extractor for calculating an opinion score based upon an opinion grouping, the opinion grouping including at least the feature word and the opinion word identified by the information extractor, the opinion score based on a word score associated with the feature word or the opinion word identified by the information extractor.