Composite propensity profile detector

• US 9,311,467 B2
• Filed: 08/20/2013
• Issued: 04/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Coden, Anni R., Houck, Keith C., Lin, Ching-Yung, Lin, Wanyi, Malkin, Peter K., Pan, Shimei, Park, Youngja, Weisz, Justin D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chaki, Kakali
• Assistant Examiner(s): Seck, Ababacar
• Application Number:
  US13/971,402
• Publication Number:
  US 20150058273A1
• Time in Patent Office: 966 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/55 Detecting local intrusion or implementing counter-measures
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/04 Inference or reasoning models
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/048 Fuzzy inferencing
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 7/01 Probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 7/04 Physical realisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/102 Entity profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/1433 Vulnerability analysis

Abstract

Detecting propensity profile for a person may comprise receiving artifacts associated with the person; detecting profile characteristics for the person based on the artifacts; receiving a plurality of predefined profiles comprising a plurality of characteristics and relationships between the characteristics over time, each of the plurality of predefined profiles specifying an indication of propensity; matching the profile characteristics for the person with one or more of the plurality of predefined profiles; and outputting one or more propensity indicators based on the matching, the propensity indicators comprising at least an expressed strength of a given propensity in the person at a given time.

Claims

1. A method for detecting propensity profile of a person, comprising:

receiving artifacts associated with the person;

detecting, by one or more computer processors, profile characteristics for the person based on the artifacts, the profile characteristics comprising changes over time of at least personality and emotional state of the person;

receiving a plurality of predefined profiles comprising a plurality of characteristics and relationships between the characteristics over time wherein at least some of the characteristics have time varying interdependencies among one another, each of the plurality of predefined profiles specifying an indication of propensity;

matching, by one or more of the computer processors executing a machine learning algorithm, the profile characteristics for the person with one or more of the plurality of predefined profiles; and

outputting one or more propensity indicators based on the matching, the propensity indicators comprising at least an expressed strength of a given propensity in the person at a given time,

adding one or more latent characteristics to the profile characteristics determined based on performing a what-if analysis, for detecting whether combining the one or more latent characteristics with the profile characteristics at the given time would trigger a propensity indication which would not be triggered by the profile characteristics.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the artifacts comprise email, instant messaging messages, web site content, or social media content, or combinations thereof.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting profile characteristics comprises one or more of machine learning, detecting by a rule-based method, or detecting by dictionary lookup, or combinations thereof.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting profile characteristics comprises:

extracting features from the artifacts;

applying rules based on a predefined dictionary to the extracted features to detect profile characteristics; and

scoring the profile characteristics to determine a degree to which the profile characteristics are present in the artifacts.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the extracting features from the artifacts comprises:

extracting lexical features comprising at least uppercase words, repeated punctuation, and repeated letters;

extracting emoticons;

extracting positive and negative sentiment words; and

performing a sentiment analysis.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the performing a sentiment analysis comprises:

performing psycholinguistic analysis; and

a dictionary-based semantic identification.

7. A system for detecting propensity profile for a person, comprising:

a processor comprising at least hardware;

one or more profile characteristic detectors operable to execute on the processor, and further operable to detect profile characteristics for the person based on a plurality of received artifacts, the profile characteristics comprising changes over time of at least personality and emotional state of the person; and

a profile matcher operable to execute on the processor, and further operable to match by executing a machine learning algorithm, the profile characteristics for the person with one or more of a plurality of predefined profiles, the plurality of predefined profiles comprising a plurality of characteristics and relationships between the characteristics over time, wherein at

least some of the characteristics have time varying interdependencies among one another, each of the plurality of predefined profiles specifying an indication of propensity, the profile matcher further operable to output one or more propensity indicators based on the matching, the propensity indicators comprising at least an expressed strength of a given propensity in the person at a given time,

wherein one or more latent characteristics determined based on performing a what-if analysis is added to the profile characteristics, for detecting whether combining the one or more latent characteristics with the profile characteristics at the given time would trigger a propensity indication which would not be triggered by the profile characteristics.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the artifacts comprise email, instant messaging messages, web site content, or social media content, or combinations thereof.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the one or more profile characteristic detectors comprises one or more of machine learning, a rule-based method, or a dictionary lookup, or combinations thereof.

10. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method of detecting propensity profile for a person, the method comprising:

receiving artifacts associated with the person;

detecting profile characteristics for the person based on the artifacts, the profile characteristics comprising changes over time of at least personality and emotional state of the person;

receiving a plurality of predefined profiles comprising a plurality of characteristics and relationships between the characteristics over time, wherein at least some of the characteristics have time varying interdependencies among one another, each of the plurality of predefined profiles specifying an indication of propensity;

matching by a machine learning algorithm, the profile characteristics for the person with one or more of the plurality of predefined profiles; and

outputting one or more propensity indicators based on the matching, the propensity indicators comprising at least an expressed strength of a given propensity in the person at a given time,

adding one or more latent characteristics to the profile characteristics determined based on performing a what-if analysis, for detecting whether combining the one or more latent characteristics with the profile characteristics at the given time would trigger a propensity indication which would not be triggered by the profile characteristics.

11. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the artifacts comprise email, instant messaging messages, web site content, or social media content, or combinations thereof.

12. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the detecting profile characteristics comprises one or more of machine learning, detecting by a rule-based method, or detecting by dictionary lookup, or combinations thereof.

13. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the detecting profile characteristics comprises:

extracting features from the artifacts;

applying rules based on a predefined dictionary to the extracted features to detect profile characteristics; and

scoring the profile characteristics to determine a degree to which the profile characteristics are present in the artifacts.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the extracting features from the artifacts comprises:

extracting lexical features comprising at least uppercase words, repeated punctuation, and repeated letters;

extracting emoticons;

extracting positive and negative sentiment words; and

performing a sentiment analysis.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the performing a sentiment analysis comprises:

performing psycholinguistic analysis; and

a dictionary-based semantic identification.

16. The computer readable storage medium of claim 10, wherein the one or more latent characteristic comprises at least one or more of fear and fondness.

17. The computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the scoring the profile characteristics is based on at least a boosted ratio of number of sentences that satisfy the rules to a total number of sentences in the artifacts and a boosted ratio of number of lexical features to a total number of words in the artifacts.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the emoticons comprise pictorial representations of a facial expressing using a plurality of text characters.