System and method for classification of microblog posts based on identification of topics
US10482119B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Apr 14, 2016 |
| Grant date | Nov 19, 2019 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 17, 2038 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06N20/00
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A method for assigning a topic to a collection of microblog posts may include, by an acquisition module, receiving from at least one messaging service server, a plurality of posts, wherein each of the plurality of posts comprise post content; by a generation module, analyzing the posts and extract, from at least one of the posts, a link with an address to an external document; and, by the acquisition module, accessing the external document that is associated with the address and fetch external content associated with the document. The method may also include by the generation module: analyzing the post content to identify at least one label for each post, for each post that includes a link, analyzing the external content to identify a topic, and using a topic modeling technique to generate a trained topic model comprising a plurality of topics and a plurality of associated words.
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