Real-time classification of evolving dictionaries

A system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• a memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory including instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
• identify an emotion identifier from a network message using an emotion identifier table;
• separate the emotion identifier from the network message, and splitting a remaining portion of the network message into multiple tokens, each of the multiple tokens delimited by a space or a punctuation mark;
• determine a message sentiment score for the network message based on an emotion identifier sentiment score associated with the emotion identifier in the emotion identifier table, and on at least one of the multiple tokens;
• add a first token from the multiple tokens to the emotion identifier table based on a contribution from the first token to the message sentiment score;
• associate a sentiment score for the first token in the emotion identifier table based on the contribution of the first token to the message sentiment score;
• and
• modify an emotion identifier sentiment score of the first token when the first token is already included in the emotion identifier table based on the contribution of the first token to the message sentiment score.

A non-transitory, computer readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed by a processor in a computer, cause the computer to execute a method, the method comprising:

• identifying an emotion identifier from a network message using an emotion identifier table;
• separating the emotion identifier from the network message, and splitting a remaining portion of the network message into multiple tokens, each of the multiple tokens delimited by a space or a punctuation mark;
• determining a message sentiment score for the network message based on an emotion identifier sentiment score associated with the emotion identifier in the emotion identifier table, and on at least one of the multiple tokens;
• adding a first token from the multiple tokens to the emotion identifier table based on a contribution from the first token to the message sentiment score;
• associating a sentiment score for the first token in the emotion identifier table based on the contribution of the first token to the message sentiment score;
• and
• modifying an emotion identifier sentiment score of the first token when the first token is already included in the emotion identifier table based on the contribution of the first token to the message sentiment score.