METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION DISCOVERY AND TEXT ANALYSIS
First Claim
1. A method for searching one or more text sources including temporally-ordered data objects characterized in that it comprises:
- providing access to one or more text sources, each text source including one or more temporally-ordered data objects;
obtaining or generating a search query based on one or more terms and one or more time intervals;
obtaining or generating time data associated with the data objects;
identifying one or more data objects based on the search query; and
generating one or more popularity curves based on the frequency of data objects corresponding to one or more of the search terms in the one or more time intervals.
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Abstract
A method for searching text sources including temporally-ordered data objects, such as a blog, is provided including the steps of: (i) providing access to text sources, each text source including temporally-ordered data objects; (ii) obtaining or generating a search query based on terms and time intervals; (iii) obtaining or generating time data associated with the data objects; (iv) identifying data objects based on the search query; and (v) generating popularity curves based on the frequency of data objects corresponding to one or more of the search terms in the one or more time intervals. A system and computer program for text source searching is also provided.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for searching one or more text sources including temporally-ordered data objects characterized in that it comprises:
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providing access to one or more text sources, each text source including one or more temporally-ordered data objects; obtaining or generating a search query based on one or more terms and one or more time intervals; obtaining or generating time data associated with the data objects; identifying one or more data objects based on the search query; and generating one or more popularity curves based on the frequency of data objects corresponding to one or more of the search terms in the one or more time intervals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A system for searching a text source including temporally-ordered data objects characterized in that it comprises:
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a computer; a search term definition utility linked to the computer or loaded on the computer; wherein the computer is connected via an inter-connected network of computers to one or more text sources including temporally-ordered data objects; wherein the system, by means of cooperation of the search term definition utility and the computer, is operable to; provide access to one or more text sources, each text source including one or more temporally-ordered data objects; obtain or generate a search query based on one or more terms and one or more time intervals; obtain or generate time data associated with the data objects; identify one or more data objects based on the search query; and generate one or more popularity curves based on the frequency of data objects corresponding to one or more of the search terms in the one or more time intervals. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computer program product, characterized in that it comprises computer instructions made available to a computer that are operable to define a search term definition utility, wherein the computer is linked to one or more text sources including temporally-ordered data objects, wherein the computer program product, by means of cooperation of the search term definition utility and the computer is characterized in that the search term definition utility is operable to:
- provide access to one or more text sources, each text source including one or more temporally-ordered data objects, obtain or generate one or more time intervals;
obtain or generate a search query based on one or more terms and one or more time intervals;
identify one or more data objects based on the search query; and
generate one or more popularity curves based on the frequency of data objects corresponding to one or more of the search terms in the one or more time intervals.
- provide access to one or more text sources, each text source including one or more temporally-ordered data objects, obtain or generate one or more time intervals;
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