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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 15, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2012
Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Ioannis Pavlidis, Boulder, CO (US);
Tracy Chu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are methods for identifying topical experts from a seed set of experts by identifying 'second tier' influencers for the topic. New concepts detected among a pool of experts and second tier influencers are monitored among the general population and their significance evaluated. Reports may be generated for these detected trends. Trends in social media for a concept represented in a taxonomy may be detected by monitoring content for descendent nodes for the concept. Correlations between social media activity with respect to the concept and sales of products corresponding to the concept may be made and sales predicted for the same or different products that correspond to descendants of the concept in the taxonomy.