METHODS AND SYSTEMS INVOLVING TEXT ANALYSIS

• US 20090112834A1
• Filed: 10/31/2007
• Published: 04/30/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Obszarny, Christopher E., Loussedes, Debra A., Cordes, Steven A., Varekamp, Patrick R.
• Granted Patent: US 7,810,033 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/109 Font handling; Temporal or kinetic typography
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/279 Recognition of textual entities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/284 Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/30 Semantic analysis

Abstract

An exemplary method for determining emotive tone in text, the method comprising, matching text in a text file with text entries in a control file database, wherein the formatting attributes include textual and non-textual indicators, receiving a first set of emotive values associated with the matching text entries from the control file database, calculating an emotive score with the first set of emotive values, assigning the emotive score to the text file, and displaying the emotive score of the text file.

Claims

1. A method for determining emotive tone in text, the method comprising:

matching text in a text file with text entries in a control file database, wherein the formatting attributes include textual and non-textual indicators;

receiving a first set of emotive values associated with the matching text entries from the control file database;

calculating an emotive score with the first set of emotive values;

assigning the emotive score to the text file; and

displaying the emotive score of the text file.

2. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

determining formatting attributes of the text by;

associating a second set of emotive values stored in the control file database with the determined formatting attributes of the text;

calculating an updated emotive score with the first set of emotive values and the second set of emotive values;

updating the assigned emotive score of the text file; and

displaying the emotive score of the text file.

3. The method of claim 2, the method further comprising receiving control file database updates from a user, wherein the control file database updates include adding, deleting, and editing control file database data.

4. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

associating the emotive score of the text file with a visual indicator, wherein the visual indicator is configurable by a user; and

displaying the associated visual indicator.

5. The method of claim 2, the method further comprising:

highlighting the matching text and the determined formatting attributes of the text;

receiving a first input from a user, wherein the first input includes selecting a highlighted text portion;

displaying the emotive value associated with the selected highlighted text portion responsive to receiving the first input from the user;

displaying a text replacement option associated with the selected highlighted text portion, wherein the associated text replacement option is stored in the control file database;

replacing the selected highlighted text portion with the text replacement option responsive to receiving a second input from the user, wherein the second input includes selecting the text replacement option;

displaying a second option, wherein the second option includes updating entries in the control file database associated with the selected highlighted text portion;

updating the entries in the control file database associated with the selected highlighted text portion responsive receiving a third input from the user, wherein the third input includes selecting the second option.

6. A method for displaying emotive tone in text files, the method comprising:

receiving a first text file, wherein the first text file includes an associated identifier and an emotive score;

receiving a second text file, wherein the second text file includes an associated identifier and an emotive score;

displaying the associated identifier and the emotive score of the first text file; and

displaying the associated identifier and the emotive score of the second text file.

7. The method of claim 6, the method further comprising sorting the displayed associated identifier and the emotive score of the first text file and the associated identifier and the emotive score of the second text file according to the emotive scores of the first text file and the second text file.

8. The method of claim 7, the method further comprising:

associating the emotive score of the first text file and the emotive score of the second text file with visual indicators corresponding to values of the emotive scores; and

displaying the associated visual indicators.

9. A method for determining emotive tone in text, the method comprising:

receiving a first text file, wherein the first text file includes an associated identifier;

determining an emotive score of the first text file from emotive values of text in the first text file and emotive values of formatting attributes of the text in the first text file;

assigning the emotive score to the first text file; and

displaying the emotive score of the first text file and the associated identifier.

10. The method of claim 9, the method further comprising:

receiving a second text file, wherein the second text file includes an associated identifier;

determining an emotive score of the second text file from emotive values of text in the second text file and emotive values of formatting attributes of the text in the second text file;

assigning the emotive score to the second text file; and

displaying the emotive score of the second text file and the associated identifier.

11. The method of claim 10, the method further comprising sorting the displayed associated identifier and the emotive score of the first text file and the associated identifier and the emotive score of the second text file according to the emotive scores of the first text file and the second text file.

12. The method of claim 10, the method further comprising:

associating the emotive score of the first text file and the emotive score of the second text file with visual indicators corresponding to values of the emotive scores; and

displaying the associated visual indicators.

13. A system for determining and displaying emotive tone in text, comprising:

a control file database including a plurality of text entries having corresponding emotive values, wherein the control file database is configurable by a user; and

a processor operative to receive a first input, wherein the first input is a first text file including an associated identifier, the processor further configured to match text in the first text file with text entries in the control file database, receive a first set of emotive values corresponding with the matching text entries from the control file database, calculate an emotive score with the first set of emotive values, assign the emotive score to the first text file, and output the emotive score of the first text file and the associated identifier of the first text file to a display.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor is further operative to determine formatting attributes of the first text file, the formatting attributes including textual and non-textual indicators, associate a second set of emotive values with the determined formatting attributes of the text file, calculate an updated emotive score with the first set of emotive values and the second set of emotive values, update the assigned emotive score of the first text file, and display the emotive score of the first text file.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the processor is further operative to associate the emotive score of the first text file with a visual indicator, and display the associated visual indicator.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the processor is further operative to highlight the matching text and the determined formatting attributes of the text;

receive a first input from a user, wherein the first input includes selecting a highlighted text portion;

display the emotive value associated with the selected highlighted text portion responsive to receiving the first input from the user;

display a text replacement option associated with the selected highlighted text portion, wherein the associated text replacement option is stored in the control file database;

replace the selected highlighted text portion with the text replacement option responsive to receiving a second input from the user, wherein the second input includes selecting the text replacement option;

display a second option, wherein the second option includes updating entries in the control file database associated with the selected highlighted text portion;

update the entries in the control file database associated with the selected highlighted text portion responsive receiving a third input from the user, wherein the third input includes selecting the second option.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the processor is further operative to receive a second input, wherein the second input is a second text file including an associated identifier, the processor further configured to match text in the second text file with text entries in the control file database, receive a third set of emotive values corresponding with the matching text entries from the control file database, calculate an emotive score of the second text file with the third set of emotive values, assign the emotive score to the second text file, and output the emotive score of the second text file and the associated identifier of the second text file to the display.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the processor is further operative to determine formatting attributes of the second text file, associate a fourth set of emotive values with the determined formatting attributes of the second text file, calculate an updated emotive score with the third set of emotive values and the fourth set of emotive values, update the assigned emotive score of the second text file, and display the emotive score of the second text file.

19. The system of claim 17, wherein the processor is further operative to associate the emotive score of the second text file with a visual indicator, and display the associated visual indicator.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein the processor is further operative to sort the displayed associated identifier and the emotive score of the first text file and the associated identifier and the emotive score of the second text file according to the emotive scores of the first text file and the second text file.