Reputation analysis system and reputation analysis method

• US 9,245,023 B2
• Filed: 11/15/2010
• Issued: 01/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Okajima, Yuzuru, Ando, Shinichi, Nakazawa, Satoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): ALAM, SHAHID AL
• Application Number:
  US13/511,099
• Publication Number:
  US 20120239665A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,898 Days
• Field of Search: 707/769, 707/723, 707/748, 707/722, 707/734, 707/706, 707/736, 707/738, 707/770, 707/798, 707/802, 707/804, 709/204, 709/206, 709/217, 705/7.19, 705/7.29, 705/14.58, 705/319
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/338 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/345 Summarisation for human users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

Described are a reputation analysis device, reputation analysis method, and reputation analysis-use program capable of suitably analyzing temporal changes in reputation for an object indicated by a keyword. The disclosed reputation analysis device is provided with a voluntary activity description extraction means for extracting descriptions representing voluntary activity related to an object indicated by a keyword that has been input from within a plurality of documents; and a reputation chronological data estimation means for counting the number of occurrences of voluntary activity at each time point wherein the voluntary activity expressed by a description representing the voluntary activity related to the object has been performed, and estimating reputation chronological data for chronologically representing evaluations for the object by the agents of the voluntary activity.

Claims

1. A reputation analysis system comprising:

voluntary action description extraction unit, implemented by a hardware processor, which extracts, from a plurality of documents, a description representing a voluntary action relating to a subject indicated by an input keyword;

a dictionary of voluntary action expressions for storing expressions expressing voluntary actions relating to a subject, and

reputation time-series data estimation unit, implemented by the hardware processor, which counts a number of appearances of voluntary actions for each point of time when the voluntary action expressed by the description representing the voluntary action relating to said subject is performed, and thereby estimating reputation time-series data which represents evaluations of said subject by agents of the voluntary actions in a form of a time series,

wherein said voluntary action description extraction unit extracts, using said dictionary of voluntary action expressions, the description including said keyword and an expression stored in said dictionary of voluntary action expressions, from said plurality of documents.

2. The reputation analysis system according to claim 1, wherein

said reputation time-series data estimation unit estimates a point of time when the voluntary action is performed, using at least either of time information representing a time of creation or a time of dispatching of said document and the expression relating to time in the description representing the voluntary action.

3. The reputation analysis system according to claim 1, wherein

said dictionary of voluntary action expressions stores, in addition to the expressions expressing voluntary actions relating to the subject, evaluation types of evaluations of said subject by agents of actions which is estimated from the voluntary actions expressed by said expressions.

4. The reputation analysis system according to claim 3, wherein

said reputation time-series data estimation unit estimates said reputation time-series data on a basis of vector values which are calculated by counting, in terms of each of the evaluation types, the number of appearances of evaluations of said subject by agents of actions estimated from said expressions expressing voluntary actions.

5. The reputation analysis system according to claim 1, wherein

said voluntary action description extraction unit extracts a voluntary action description according to a regulation which prescribes positional or grammatical relations between said keyword and said expressions expressing voluntary actions.

6. The reputation analysis system according to claim 1, further comprising

reputation change determination unit which determines change with time in reputation of said subject on the basis of an estimation result by said reputation time-series data estimation unit.

7. The reputation analysis system according to claim 6, wherein

said reputation change determination unit outputs the estimated said change with time in reputation as visualized data.

8. A reputation analysis method by a computer including a dictionary of voluntary action expressions for storing expressions expressing voluntary actions relating to a subject, comprising:

extracting, by the computer, from a plurality of documents, a description representing a voluntary action relating to a subject indicated by an input keyword and extracting, using said dictionary of voluntary action expressions, the description including said keyword and an expression stored in said dictionary of voluntary action expressions, from said plurality of documents; and

counting, by the computer, a number of appearances of voluntary actions for each point of time when the voluntary action expressed by the description representing the voluntary action relating to said subject is performed, and thereby estimating, by the computer, reputation time-series data which represents evaluations of said subject by agents of the voluntary actions in the form of a time series.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable program recording medium storing a program for reputation analysis for enabling a computer including a dictionary of voluntary action expressions for storing expressions expressing voluntary actions relating to a subject to execute the processes of:

extracting, from a plurality of documents, a description representing a voluntary action relating to a subject indicated by an input keyword;

extracting, using said dictionary of voluntary action expressions, the description including said keyword and an expression stored in said dictionary of voluntary action expressions, from said plurality of documents; and

counting a number of appearances of voluntary actions for each point of time when the voluntary action expressed by the description representing the voluntary action relating to said subject is performed, and thereby estimating reputation time-series data which represents evaluations of said subject by agents of the voluntary actions in the form of a time series.

10. A reputation analysis system comprising:

a dictionary of voluntary action expressions for storing expressions expressing voluntary actions relating to a subject;

voluntary action description extraction means for extracting, from a plurality of documents, a description representing a voluntary action relating to a subject indicated by an input keyword and extracting, using said dictionary of voluntary action expressions, the description including said keyword and an expression stored in said dictionary of voluntary action expressions, from said plurality of documents; and

reputation time-series data estimation means for counting a number of appearances of voluntary actions for each point of time when the voluntary action expressed by the description representing the voluntary action relating to said subject, and thereby estimating reputation time-series data which represents evaluations of said subject by agents of the voluntary actions in the form of a time series.