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Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 10, 2013
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Nan Cao, Ossining, NY (US);

Ching-Yung Lin, Forest Hills, NY (US);

Fei Wang, Ossining, NY (US);

Zhen Wen, Springfield, NJ (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 10/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30716 (2013.01); G06Q 10/00 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01);
Abstract

Visualizing social media conflict is provided. Textual messages by a set of human users connected via a network regarding a particular topic are collected. Active users in the set of human users authoring a number of textual messages regarding the particular topic more than a threshold number of textual messages are selected. Keywords are selected that occur more than a threshold number of times within the textual messages regarding the particular topic. A sentiment score is computed for each of the keywords occurring more than the threshold number of times within the textual messages using a keyword co-occurrence graph. A sentiment of each of the active users is determined based on the computed sentiment score of each of the selected keywords that are authored by a particular active user.


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