Identification, curation and trend monitoring for uncorrelated information sources

Apparatus associated with an information processing and curation system, comprising:

• a processor;
• computer memory holding computer program instructions executed by the processor to identify information with respect to each of a set of publicly-traded stocks, each publicly-traded stock of the set having an associated ticker symbol, the computer program instructions operative:
• for each publicly-traded stock the set, to receive and parse media content to generate, as a tag library, a ranked set of ticker terms other than the associated ticker symbol, the ranked set of ticker terms in the tab library being curated at least in part by applying crowd-sourced information about one or more of the ticker terms received from a set of one or more third party curators;
• for each publicly-traded stock of interest the set, to real-time monitor one or more of the generated ranked set of ticker terms in the tag library for that publicly-traded stock against one or more social media content streams, wherein, during real-time monitoring, a given ticker term instance within the one or more social media content streams is aggregated for trend analysis provided its usage within the one or more social media content streams has been shown to satisfy a context measure;
• and
• based on results of the real-time monitoring and the trend analysis, the results providing an indication that a particular ticker term in the tag library is trending within the one or more social media content streams to a configurable degree, to flag for notification the particular ticker term and its associated publicly-traded stock to provide for an improved operation of the information processing and curation system.