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Quantifying a Data Source's Reputation

  • US 20090125382A1
  • Filed: 11/05/2008
  • Published: 05/14/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2007
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of quantifying a reputation of a data source with respect to a topic, the method comprising:

  • searching for web documents relating to a first topic and attributed to a data source based on a search term;

    forming a set of historical documents from the web documents satisfying the search term where each of the historical documents includes an opinion of the data source with respect to the topic;

    converting each opinion automatically into a quantifiable predication;

    correlating at least some of the quantifiable predictions with verifiable outcomes to derive an outcome score for each of the at least some of the predications;

    assigning a prediction score to the data source as a function of the outcome scores;

    deriving a reputation score of the data source with respect to a new opinion within a current document from the data source and relating to a second topic as a function of the prediction score; and

    presenting the reputation score relating to the current document to a user via a computer interface.

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