Protecting a social media post with a hashtag from divergence

US11188613B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Benjamin P. Segal · Hyde Park, US
• James W. Murdock, IV · Amawalk, US
• John M. Prager · Stony Point, US
• Radha M. De · Jharia, IN
• Sujoy Roy · Sherghati, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 3, 2019
• Grant date: Nov 30, 2021
• Expiry date: Jan 24, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04L51/222
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method modifies a social media post in response to determining that a hashtag for the social media post diverges from how the hashtag is used by other social media posts. A computing device receives a social media post, which contains a hashtag, and analyzes the social media post using natural language processing and a sentiment analysis to determine a sense and sentiment of the social media post. The computing device receives a plurality of reference social media posts, where each of the reference social media posts contains the hashtag, and utilizes the natural language processing and the sentiment analysis to determine a sense and sentiment of the reference social media posts. In response to determining that the sense and sentiment of the social media post do not match the sense and sentiment of the reference social media posts, the computing device causes the social media post to be altered.