22. The article of manufacture of claim 21 , determining the meaning of or the issue associated with the pertinent trend comprising: performing a natural language processing on the pertinent trend, by performing at least a natural language understanding process on the pertinent trend to convert at least a part of the pertinent trend into one or more representation structures to be manipulated by a computing system; performing a natural language word sense process on the pertinent trend to determine one meaning from a plurality of meanings of a term associated with the at least the part of the pertinent trend; recognizing one or more recognized terms in the at least the part of the pertinent trend; performing word, sentence, or topic segmentation on the at least the part of the pertinent trend; and identifying or determining one or more relationships between a first portion and a second portion of the at least the part of the pertinent trend.
21. The article of manufacture of claim 20 , identifying the pertinent trend in the conversations of the target forum comprising: identifying or receiving one or more trends from an external source; determining the pertinent trend from the one or more trends by at least performing a trend filtering process; and determining a meaning of or an issue associated with the pertinent trend by: performing a lexical analysis on the pertinent trend to convert at least a part of the pertinent trend into a sequence of tokens, performing a syntax analysis on the at least the part of the pertinent trend to analyze the sequence of tokens to determine a syntactic structure of the at least the part of the pertinent trend with respect to a grammar, performing a semantics analysis on the at least the part of the pertinent trend to associate semantic information with the at least the part of the pertinent trend, and performing a context analysis on the at least the part of the pertinent trend to determine one or more specific contexts with which the at least the part of the pertinent trend is associated.