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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SUMMARIZING FINE-GRAINED OPINIONS IN DIGITAL TEXT

  • US 20090112892A1
  • Filed: 10/29/2007
  • Published: 04/30/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for generating an opinion summary from a document, said method comprising:

  • extracting a plurality of opinion expressions from the document, each opinion expression denoted by an opinion trigger and including an opinion source, opinion topic, opinion polarity and opinion strength;

    identifying those opinion expressions that share a common opinion source and a common opinion topic; and

    combining the opinion polarities and opinion strengths of those opinion expressions that share a common opinion source to form an overall opinion summary with one aggregate opinion frame for each common opinion source-topic pairing.

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