Semiotic square search and/or sentiment analysis system and method

Abstract

A semiotic square search and/or sentiment analysis system and method are provided. In one implementation, a software implemented document search system and method are disclosed. The system and method may be used to analyze sentiments in various types of data including documents, blogs, text strings, posts, etc . . .

1 . A semiotic square analysis system, comprising:
 a storage device storing a plurality of semiotic squares, each semiotic square further comprising a fact, a rebuttal of the fact, a denial of the fact and an excess wherein each semiotic square defines a sentiment;   a semiotic square generator on a computer system that generates the plurality of semiotic squares stored in the storage device from the corpus of data; and   a computer system having a processor and the processor is configured to utilize the plurality of semiotic squares to analyze a request for sentiment based on the a corpus of data and generate sentiment analysis results.   
     
     
         2 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein each semiotic square is stored in a thesaurus data structure. 
     
     
         3 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein each semiotic square is indexed. 
     
     
         4 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the corpus of data further comprises one or more of a document, a blog, a text string, a post and a video. 
     
     
         5 . The system of  claim 1  further comprising one or more computing devices that are capable of being coupled to the computer system over a link, wherein each computing device generates a search request and communicates the search request to the computer system. 
     
     
         6 . The system of  claim 5  wherein each computing device further comprises one of a personal computer, a laptop computer, a mobile phone and a smart phone. 
     
     
         7 . The system of  claim 5 , wherein the link further comprises one of a wired link and a wireless link. 
     
     
         8 . The system of  claim 1 , wherein the computer system further comprises one or more server computers. 
     
     
         9 . A semiotic square analysis system, comprising:
 a storage device storing a plurality of semiotic squares, each semiotic square further comprising a Deixis positive and a Deixis negative;   a computer system having a processor that is configured to utilize the plurality of semiotic squares to analyze a request, wherein the processor is further configured to utilize one or more of the plurality of semiotic squares to analyze the request for sentiment based on a corpus of data and generate sentiment analysis results; and   the computer system having a semiotic square generator that generates the plurality of semiotic squares stored in the storage device from the corpus of data.   
     
     
         10 . The system of  claim 9 , wherein each semiotic square is stored in a thesaurus data structure and each semiotic square is indexed. 
     
     
         11 . The system of  claim 9 , wherein the corpus of data further comprises one or more of a document, a blog, a text string, a post and a video. 
     
     
         12 . The system of  claim 9  further comprising one or more computing devices that are capable of being coupled to the computer system over a link, wherein each computing device generates a search request and communicates the search request to the computer system. 
     
     
         13 . The system of  claim 12  wherein each computing device further comprises one of a personal computer, a laptop computer, a mobile phone and a smart phone and link further comprises one of a wired link and a wireless link. 
     
     
         14 . A method, the method comprising:
 providing a plurality of semiotic squares stored in a storage device each semiotic square further comprising a fact, a rebuttal of the fact, a denial of the fact and an excess wherein each semiotic square defines a sentiment;   generating the plurality of semiotic squares from a corpus of data; and   utilizing, on a computer system having a processor, the plurality of semiotic squares to analyze a request for sentiment based on the a corpus of data and generate sentiment analysis results.   
     
     
         15 . The method of  claim 14  further comprising storing each semiotic square in a thesaurus data structure. 
     
     
         16 . The method of  claim 14  further comprising indexing each semiotic square. 
     
     
         17 . The method of  claim 14 , wherein the corpus of data further comprises one or more of a document, a blog, a text string, a post and a video.