Abstract:In the context of the rise of online communities, considering the massive comment data in online communities contains a large amount of collective intelligence, a new technology foresight method based on text mining of web comments is proposed, in order to promote the smooth implementation of technology foresight activities and obtain accurate and credible final results. Firstly, technology innovation topics are obtained from multi-source data and put into online communities, attracting experts and users to discuss to form interactive data, after data crawling, cleaning, storage and other procedures, web comment data sets can be obtained. Then, implicit knowledge contained in web comments is explicitly mined by sentiment analysis and topic model. And finally, valuable information is obtained after combining the judgment of experts in related fields. Through the new method, technology foresight activities can greatly save costs, break the time and space constraints, facilitate a large number of experts to participate, and minimize the negative impact of the subjective influence of a few experts.