Extraction of comparative opinionate sentences from product online reviews

Ping Ji, Jian Jin

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Abstract

Big volume of product online reviews are generated from time to time, which contain rich information regarding customer requirements. These reviews help designers to make exhaustive analyses of competitors, which is one indispensable step in market-driven product design. How to extract critical opinionate sentences associated with some specific features from product online reviews has been investigated by some researchers. However, few of them examined how to select a small number of representative yet comparative sentences for competitor analysis. In this research, a framework is illustrated to select pairs of opinionate sentences referring to a specific feature from reviews of competitive products. With the help of the techniques on sentiment analysis, opinionate sentences referring to a specific feature are first identified from product online reviews. Then, for the selection of a small number of representative yet comparative opinionate sentences, information representativeness, information comparativeness and information diversity are investigated. Accordingly, an optimization problem is formulated, and three greedy algorithms are proposed to analyze this problem for suboptimal solutions. Finally, with a large amount of real data from Amazon.com, categories of extensive experiments are conducted and the final encouraging results are realized, which prove the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 12th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, FSKD 2015
PublisherIEEE
Pages1777-1785
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781467376822
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Jan 2016
Event12th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, FSKD 2015 - Zhangjiajie, China
Duration: 15 Aug 201517 Aug 2015

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, FSKD 2015
Country/TerritoryChina
CityZhangjiajie
Period15/08/1517/08/15

Keywords

  • competitor analysis
  • customer requirement
  • product comparison
  • product design
  • review analysis
  • text mining

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
  • Modelling and Simulation
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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