Patent Document ID: 9633007
Application ID: 15079883

Base Claim:
1. A method for aspect categorization comprising: receiving an input text sequence; providing for identifying aspect terms in the input text sequence; providing for identifying sentiment phrases in the input text sequence; for an identified aspect term: providing for identifying sentiment dependencies in which the aspect term is in a syntactic dependency with one of the identified sentiment phrases, and from a dependency graph of the input text sequence, the dependency graph comprising a sequence of nodes, providing for identifying pseudo-dependencies in which a node representing the aspect term precedes or follows a node representing a semantic anchor in the dependency graph without an intervening other aspect term; extracting features from at least one of identified sentiment dependencies and identified pseudo-dependencies; with a classifier trained to output at least one of category labels and polarity labels for aspect terms, classifying the identified aspect term based on the extracted features; and outputting information based on the classification.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein each aspect term is a word or sequence of words which names a particular aspect of a target entity in a domain of interest.