System for Estimating a Distribution of Message Content Categories in Source Data

Citation:

Daniel Hopkins, Gary King, and Ying Lu. 2012. “System for Estimating a Distribution of Message Content Categories in Source Data.” United States of America 8,180,717 (May 15). US Copy at https://tinyurl.com/y2kmolmz
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System for Estimating a Distribution of Message Content Categories in Source Data

Abstract:

A method of computerized content analysis that gives “approximately unbiased and statistically consistent estimates” of a distribution of elements of structured, unstructured, and partially structured source data among a set of categories. In one embodiment, this is done by analyzing a distribution of small set of individually-classified elements in a plurality of categories and then using the information determined from the analysis to extrapolate a distribution in a larger population set. This extrapolation is performed without constraining the distribution of the unlabeled elements to be equal to the distribution of labeled elements, nor constraining a content distribution of content of elements in the labeled set (e.g., a distribution of words used by elements in the labeled set) to be equal to a content distribution of elements in the unlabeled set. Not being constrained in these ways allows the estimation techniques described herein to provide distinct advantages over conventional aggregation techniques.

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