Patent Document ID: 8010539
Application ID: 12020483

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for generating a snippet for an entity, wherein the snippet comprises a plurality of sentiments about the entity, the method comprising: selecting a plurality of textual reviews associated with the entity; identifying, based on a domain-specific sentiment lexicon including sentiment phrases extracted from documents specific to a domain, a plurality of sentiment phrases from the plurality of textual reviews, wherein each identified sentiment phrase comprises a sentiment about the entity; determining a plurality of frequency values for the identified plurality of sentiment phrases, wherein each frequency value represents a number of times a sentiment phrase is identified in the one or more of textual reviews; selecting one or more sentiment phrases from the identified plurality of sentiment phrases based on the generated frequency values; generating the snippet including the selected one or more sentiment phrases; and storing the snippet.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising displaying the snippet in association with a search result.