TY - PAT T1 - System and method for analysis of an opinion expressed in documents with regard to a particular topic Y1 - 2010 A1 - V.S. Subrahmanian A1 - Picariello,Antonio A1 - Dorr, Bonnie J A1 - Reforgiato,Diego Recupero A1 - Cesarano,Carmine A1 - Sagoff,Amelia AB - System and method for analysis of an opinion expressed in documents on a particular topic computes opinion strength on a continuous numeric scale, or qualitatively. A variety of opinion scoring techniques are plugged in to score opinion expressing words and sentences in documents. These scores are aggregated to measure the opinion intensity of documents. Multilingual opinion analysis is supported by capability to concurrently identify and visualize the opinion intensity expressed in documents in multiple languages. A multi-dimensional representation of the measured opinion intensity is generated which is agreeable with multi-lingual domain. VL - 11/808,278 UR - http://www.google.com/patents?id=j9fLAAAAEBAJ ER -