US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 25 for "Topic classifier with sentiment analysis" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,661, issued on March 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Topic classifier with sentiment analysis" was invented by Takuya Goto (Kodaira, Japan) and Yoshiroh Kamiyama (Setagaya-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product are disclosed. The method includes receiving a set of documents, selecting a topic, and determining that a first document from the set contains a topic label for the topic. The method also includes generating a topic sentiment score for the first document and adding the topic sentiment score to a set of training data. Additionally, the...