A system for real-time competitive market intelligence

A method is described for real-time market intelligence and competitive analysis. News stories are collected online for a designated group of companies. The goal is to detect critical di erences in the text written about a company versus the text for its competitors. A solution is found by mapping the task into a non-stationary text categorization model. The overall design consists of the following components: (a) a real-time crawler that monitors newswires for stories about the competitors (b) a conditional document retriever that selects only those documents that meet the indicated conditions (c) text analysis techniques that convert the documents to a numerical format (d) rule induction methods for nding patterns in data (e) presentation techniques for displaying results. The method is extended to combine text with numerical measures, such as those based based on stock prices and market capitalizations, that allow for more objective evaluations and projections.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2002
• Where: KDD
• Authors: Sholom M. Weiss, Naval K. Verma
• Keywords: Data Mining, KDD 2002, Non-stationary Text Categorization, Real-time Market Intelligence, Text Analysis Techniques