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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
William G. Dubyak, Severna Park, MD (US);
Joshua G. Hong, Singapore, SG;
Brian L. Keith, Leesburg, VA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Popular trends are predicted by leveraging the language of influencers as found in their electronic publications such as social media, blogs, etc. A list of influencers in a given field is curated along with a lexicon of the field which includes product names and associated modifiers. Natural language processing is performed on the current publications to identify a particular word combination based on syntactic relationships. The current usage frequency of the particular word combination is compared to a historical usage frequency derived from a baseline. If the current usage frequency is significantly higher, an alert is generated indicating that the particular word combination represents a candidate trend. The word combination may be a syntactic n-gram. The current usage frequency is based on a first, recent time window, and the historical usage frequency is based on a second time window preceding the first time window.