Consistency Validation for Textual and Quantitative Ratings

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current evaluation systems lack the ability to validate the consistency between quantitative and textual assessments, leading to potential discrepancies in product evaluations, which can affect user confidence and trustworthiness of online ratings.

Innovation Solution

A system and method that computes a numeric score from textual evaluations through analysis and compares it with quantitative scores, calculating a similarity rating to identify and address inconsistencies, allowing users to adjust their evaluations and improve the accuracy of rating systems.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If quantitative and textual evaluations are collected separately without validation, then evaluation simplicity and speed are maintained, but consistency and reliability of evaluations deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveevaluation consistencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system computes a numeric score from the textual evaluation and compares it with the quantitative evaluation, providing feedback to the user. When inconsistencies are detected, the system alerts the user and allows them to adjust their evaluations, ensuring consistency between the two types of evaluations while maintaining system simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically validates consistency between quantitative and textual evaluations without requiring manual intervention. The evaluation process remains self-service oriented, where users simply input their evaluations and the system handles the consistency checking and alerting automatically.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Measurement precision

If consistency validation between quantitative and textual evaluations is implemented, then evaluation accuracy and trustworthiness are improved, but processing time and computational resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveevaluation accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs textual analysis and numeric score computation in advance, before the consistency check is needed. By pre-processing the textual evaluation into a numeric score, the system enables rapid comparison with the quantitative evaluation without adding significant processing time to the overall evaluation workflow.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces manual consistency checking with automated computational methods. By using algorithmic comparison between the numeric score derived from textual analysis and the quantitative evaluation, the system achieves high accuracy while minimizing processing time through efficient computation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Reliability

If textual analysis is performed to compute numeric scores, then evaluation consistency can be validated, but computational complexity and processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveevaluation consistencyVSAvoidcomputational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system transforms the textual evaluation into a numeric score by analyzing specific parameters such as sentiment, tone, and key phrases. By converting the textual evaluation into a comparable numeric format, the system enables straightforward consistency checking with the quantitative evaluation without requiring complex computational processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts key information from the textual evaluation, such as sentiment polarity and important phrases, to compute a numeric score. By extracting only the essential elements needed for consistency validation, the system minimizes computational complexity while maintaining the ability to detect inconsistencies between quantitative and textual evaluations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS9633003B2System support for evaluation consistency
Publication Date: 2017.04.25 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

A system and computer product for validating the consistency between quantitative and natural language textual evaluations. An example method involves computing a numeric score for a textual evaluation, comparing the numeric score to a quantitative evaluation, and producing a rating based on the similarity of the two evaluations.