Producing sentiment-aware results from a search query

A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor causes the processor to execute a process, the process comprising:

• receiving a database query language statement;
• parsing, by a computer processor, the database query language statement to identify one or more lexical terms to be included in a retrieval of documents containing the one or more of the lexical terms;
• and
• parsing the database query language statement to identify one or more portions of the database query language statement that specifies a desired sentiment analysis.

A system comprising:

• a lexical query processor to receive a database query language statement;
• a query processor to parse the database query language statement to identify one or more lexical terms to be included in a retrieval of documents containing the one or more of the lexical terms;
• and
• a sentiment-aware query processor to parse the database query language statement to identify one or more portions of the database query language statement that specifies a desired sentiment analysis.

An apparatus comprising:

• a document storage area;
• and
• a computer configured to execute a sequence of instructions, the instructions having steps for,
• parsing a database query language statement, wherein the database language query statement comprises a lexical term portion and sentiment analysis portion;
• receiving, from the document storage area, a set of documents containing one or more terms from the lexical term portion;
• and
• performing sentiment-aware processing over at least some of the received set of documents using at least a portion of the sentiment analysis portion of the query language statement.