US Patent Issued to NEC on Sept. 2 for "Aspect-aware sentiment analysis of user reviews supporting AI-based decision making" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,152, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Aspect-aware sentiment analysis of user reviews supporting AI-based decision making" was invented by Wei Cheng (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Wenchao Yu (Plainsboro, N.J.) and Haifeng Chen (West Windsor, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rating prediction systems and methods include extracting aspect-sentiment pairs from an input text. An attention-property-aware rating is estimated for the input text using the extracted aspect-sentiment pairs with a neural network that captures implicit and explicit features of the text. A response to the input text is performed based on the...