Patent Document ID: 8725495
Application ID: 13082963

Base Claim:
1. A method of processing data, the method comprising: identifying a set of seed words comprising words defined as either positive words or negative words; extracting, from a set of data, adjectives linked to the set of seed words with “and”; extracting, from the set of data, adjectives linked to the set of seed words with “but”; determining a first value indicating a first frequency with which the adjectives are linked to the set of seed words with “and”; determining a second value indicating a second frequency with which the adjectives are linked to the set of seed words with “but”; calculating a synonym score using an equation x ij =w ij + +Log(d ij + +1), wherein x ij corresponds to the synonym score, w ij + corresponds to a number of times that a word i and a word j appear to be synonyms, and d ij + corresponds to the first equency; and calculating, by a processor, sentiment scores for each adjective of the set of data based on the synonym score and an antonym score calculated using the second value.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: classifying each adjective of the set of data as either a positive word or a negative word.