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Date of Patent:
Apr. 20, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 21, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Mandar Mutalikdesai, Bengaluru, IN;

Anagha M, Bengaluru, IN;

Sheetal Srivastava, Bengaluru, IN;

Lavina Durgani, Bengaluru, IN;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06F 40/211 (2020.01); G06F 40/295 (2020.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06F 40/295 (2020.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
Abstract

Sentiment analysis is targeted toward a specific subject of interest (or selected subjects) in a passage of natural language text. A dependency tree is generated for the passage, and subtrees are found that have sentiment polarities which contribute to the subject(s) of interest. A targeted sentiment score is computed for the subject(s) of interest based on sentiment expressed in those subtrees. Consecutively occurring nouns in the passage are collapsed into a noun phrase, as are possessives with ensuing nouns. The sentiment expressed in a given subtree can be modified using various linguistic heuristics. For example, sentiment polarity which is modified by a negation word may be inverted, sentiment polarity which is modified by an intensifying word may be increased, or sentiment polarity which is modified by a diluting word may be decreased.


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