Attribute cloud

• US 9,064,009 B2
• Filed: 03/28/2012
• Issued: 06/23/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Ghosh, Riddhiman, Castellanos, Maria G, Hsu, Meichun
• Primary Examiner(s): BEKELE, MEKONEN T
• Application Number:
  US13/432,639
• Publication Number:
  US 20130259362A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,182 Days
• Field of Search: 382/162, 382/286, 382/164, 382/165, 382/170, 382/171, 382/173, 382/278, 704/8, 704/9, 704/E17, 704/10, 704/4, 704/1, 704/6, 704/7, 715/256, 707/103, 707/10, 707/E17.03, 707/805
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/34 Browsing; Visualisation therefor

Abstract

An example system includes at least one memory and at least one processing device. The at least one memory comprises instructions that when executed by the at least one processing device cause the system to receive a text corpus, filter the text corpus to obtain a plurality of attributes, determine the semantic cohesion between the plurality of attributes, and create an attribute cloud including the plurality of attributes, where the placement of the plurality of attributes within the attribute cloud is based at least in part on the determined semantic cohesion between the plurality of attributes.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

at least one non-transitory storage medium; and

at least one processing device, wherein the at least one non-transitory storage medium comprises instructions that when executed by the at least one processing device cause the system to;

receive a text corpus;

filter the text corpus to obtain a plurality of attributes;

determine a semantic cohesion between the plurality of attributes; and

create an attribute cloud including the plurality of attributes, wherein placement of the plurality of attributes within the attribute cloud is based at least in part on the determined semantic cohesion between the plurality of attributes, wherein sizes of respective attributes of the plurality of attributes of the attribute cloud vary according to relative importance of the plurality of attributes, and wherein visual indicators assigned to the respective attributes of the plurality of attributes vary according to user sentiments expressed for the plurality of attributes; and

generate a visual representation of the attribute cloud for display, the plurality of attributes in the visual representation of the attribute cloud having the placement, the sizes, and the visual indicators.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein attributes of the plurality of attributes with higher semantic cohesion are placed closer to one another in the attribute cloud.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions when executed cause the system to determine the semantic cohesion between the plurality of attributes by comparing meanings of the plurality of attributes.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of attributes in the attribute cloud is associated with metadata.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the metadata comprises at least one of sentiment information, influencer information, source location information, and sample text information.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions when executed cause the system to display metadata information in response to a selection of an attribute of the plurality of attributes in the visual representation of the attribute cloud, or in response to locating a cursor above an attribute of the plurality of attributes in the visual representation of the attribute cloud.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions when executed cause the system to:

determine an occurrence frequency for each respective attribute of the plurality of attributes; and

assign a text size to each respective attribute of the plurality of attributes, wherein the assigned text size is based at least in part on the determined occurrence frequency for the respective attribute of the plurality of attributes.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the instructions when executed cause the system to update the attribute cloud based on continued or periodic receipt of further text.

9. The system of claim 1, where the assigned visual indicators comprise colors assigned to the plurality of attributes.

10. A system comprising:

at least one non-transitory storage medium; and

at least one processing device, wherein the at least one non-transitory storage medium comprises instructions that when executed by the at least one processing device cause the system to;

receive a text corpus;

filter the text corpus to obtain a plurality of attributes;

determine a semantic cohesion between the plurality of attributes;

create an attribute cloud including the plurality of attributes, wherein placement of the plurality of attributes within the attribute cloud is based at least in part on the determined semantic cohesion between the plurality of attributes;

determine a sentiment for each respective attribute of the plurality of attributes; and

assign a color and a color intensity to each respective attribute of the plurality of attributes, wherein the assigned color and color intensity are based at least in part on the determined sentiment for the respective attribute of the plurality of attributes.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that when executed cause a system to:

receive a text corpus;

filter the text corpus to obtain a plurality of attributes;

determine a semantic cohesion between the plurality of attributes;

create an attribute cloud including the plurality of attributes, wherein placement of the plurality of attributes within the attribute cloud is based at least in part on the determined semantic cohesion between the plurality of attributes;

determine a sentiment for each respective attribute of the plurality of attributes; and

assign a color and a color intensity to each respective attribute of the plurality of attributes, wherein the assigned color and color intensity are based at least in part on the determined sentiment for the respective attribute of the plurality of attributes.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein attributes of the plurality of attributes with higher semantic cohesion are placed closer to one another in the attribute cloud.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the system to determine the semantic cohesion between the plurality of attributes by obtaining and comparing meanings of the plurality of attributes.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 11, wherein each of the plurality of attributes in the attribute cloud is associated with metadata, and the metadata comprises at least one of sentiment information, influencer information, source location information, and sample text information.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14, wherein the metadata is displayed in response to a selection of an attribute in the attribute cloud, or in response to locating a cursor above an attribute in the attribute cloud.

16. A method comprising:

receiving a text corpus via a computing device communications interface;

filtering, by a system including a processor, the text corpus to produce a plurality of attributes, wherein each of the plurality of attributes has an occurrence frequency above a threshold;

determining, by the system, a semantic cohesion between the plurality of attributes by analyzing a meaning of each of the plurality of attributes;

creating, by the system, an attribute cloud including the plurality of attributes, wherein placement of the plurality of attributes within the attribute cloud is based at least in part on the determined semantic cohesion between the plurality of attributes;

assigning, by the system, a text size to each respective attribute of the plurality of attributes, wherein the assigned text size is based at least in part on the occurrence frequency for the respective attribute of the plurality of attributes; and

outputting, by the system, the attribute cloud for display on a graphical user interface.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein analyzing the meaning of each of the plurality of attributes comprises determining an amount of commonality between the meanings of the plurality of attributes.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein attributes of the plurality of attributes with higher semantic cohesion are placed closer to one another within the attribute cloud than attributes with lower semantic cohesion.

19. The method claim 16, further comprising creating metadata tags for each of the plurality of attributes in the attribute cloud, wherein the metadata tags are displayed in response to a selection of an attribute in the attribute cloud, or in response to locating a cursor above an attribute in the attribute cloud.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the metadata tags comprise at least one of sentiment information, influencer information, source location information, and sample text information.