Specialized Review Selection for Feature Rating Estimation

Date

2009-09

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Publisher

IEEE

Abstract

On participatory Websites, users provide opinions about products, with both overall ratings and textual reviews. In this paper, we propose an approach to accurately estimate feature ratings of the products. This approach selects user reviews that extensively discuss specific features of the products (called specialized reviews), using information distance of reviews on the features. Experiments on real data show that overall ratings of the specialized reviews can be used to represent their feature ratings. The average of these overall ratings can be used by recommender systems to provide feature specific recommendations that better help users make purchasing decisions.

Description

2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Workshops

Keywords

DATA MINING, TEXT MINING, KOLMOGOROV COMPLEXITY, INFORMATION DISTANCE, PRODUCT REVIEWS, RANKING, FEATURE EXTRACTION

Citation

Long, C., Zhang, L., Huang, M., Zhu, X., & Li, M. (2009). Specialized Review Selection for Feature Rating Estimation. Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology – Workshops. (p.214-221). IEEE. doi:10.1109/WI-IAT.2009.38

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