Skip to main content
Erschienen in: Computing 8/2015

01.08.2015

CAPRA: a comprehensive approach to product ranking using customer reviews

verfasst von: Erfan Najmi, Khayyam Hashmi, Zaki Malik, Abdelmounaam Rezgui, Habib Ullah Khan

Erschienen in: Computing | Ausgabe 8/2015

Einloggen

Aktivieren Sie unsere intelligente Suche, um passende Fachinhalte oder Patente zu finden.

search-config
loading …

Abstract

Online shopping generates billions of dollars in revenues, including both the physical goods and online services. Product images and associated descriptions are the two main sources of information used by the shoppers to gain knowledge about a product. However, these two pieces of information may not always present the true picture of the product. Images could be deceiving, and descriptions could be overwhelming or cryptic. Moreover, the relative rank of these products among the peers may lead to inconsistencies. Hence, a useful and widely used piece of information is “user reviews”. A number of vendors like Amazon have created whole ecosystems around user reviews, thereby boosting their revenues. However, extracting the relevant and useful information out of the plethora of reviews is not straight forward, and is a very tedious job. In this paper we propose a product ranking system that facilitates the online shopping experience by analyzing the reviews for sentiments, evaluating their usefulness, extracting and weighing different product features and aspects, ranking it among similar comparable products, and finally creating a unified rank for each product. Experiment results show the usefulness of our proposed approach in providing an effective and reliable online shopping experience in comparison with similar approaches.

Sie haben noch keine Lizenz? Dann Informieren Sie sich jetzt über unsere Produkte:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Versicherung + Risiko




Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Springer Professional "Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 390 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe




 

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 102.000 Bücher
  • über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
  • Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

Literatur
1.
Zurück zum Zitat Aaker DA, Keller KL (1990) Consumer evaluations of brand extensions. J Mark 54(1):27–41CrossRef Aaker DA, Keller KL (1990) Consumer evaluations of brand extensions. J Mark 54(1):27–41CrossRef
2.
Zurück zum Zitat Brin S, Page L (1998) The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine. Comput Netw ISDN Syst 30(1):107–117CrossRefMATH Brin S, Page L (1998) The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual web search engine. Comput Netw ISDN Syst 30(1):107–117CrossRefMATH
3.
Zurück zum Zitat Daelemans W, Zavrel J, Van der Sloot K, Van den Bosch A (2003) Timbl: tilburg memory-based learner. Version 4:02-01 Daelemans W, Zavrel J, Van der Sloot K, Van den Bosch A (2003) Timbl: tilburg memory-based learner. Version 4:02-01
4.
Zurück zum Zitat Dawar N, Parker P (1994) Marketing universals: consumers’ use of brand name, price, physical appearance, and retailer reputation as signals of product quality. J Mark 58(2):81–95CrossRef Dawar N, Parker P (1994) Marketing universals: consumers’ use of brand name, price, physical appearance, and retailer reputation as signals of product quality. J Mark 58(2):81–95CrossRef
5.
Zurück zum Zitat Ding X, Liu B, Yu PS (2008) A holistic lexicon-based approach to opinion mining. In: Proceedings of the international conference on Web search and web data mining. ACM, New York, pp 231–240 Ding X, Liu B, Yu PS (2008) A holistic lexicon-based approach to opinion mining. In: Proceedings of the international conference on Web search and web data mining. ACM, New York, pp 231–240
6.
Zurück zum Zitat Esuli A, Sebastiani F (2006) Sentiwordnet: a publicly available lexical resource for opinion mining. Proc LREC 6:417–422 Esuli A, Sebastiani F (2006) Sentiwordnet: a publicly available lexical resource for opinion mining. Proc LREC 6:417–422
7.
Zurück zum Zitat Feng Q, Hwang K, Dai Y (2009) Rainbow product ranking for upgrading e-commerce. Internet Comput IEEE 13(5):72–80CrossRef Feng Q, Hwang K, Dai Y (2009) Rainbow product ranking for upgrading e-commerce. Internet Comput IEEE 13(5):72–80CrossRef
8.
Zurück zum Zitat Ge SL, Song R (2010) Automated error detection of vocabulary usage in college english writing. In: IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Web intelligence and intelligent agent technology (WI-IAT’10), vol 3. IEEE, pp 178–181 Ge SL, Song R (2010) Automated error detection of vocabulary usage in college english writing. In: IEEE/WIC/ACM international conference on Web intelligence and intelligent agent technology (WI-IAT’10), vol 3. IEEE, pp 178–181
9.
Zurück zum Zitat Ghose A, Ipeirotis PG (2006) Designing ranking systems for consumer reviews: the impact of review subjectivity on product sales and review quality. In: Proceedings of the 16th annual workshop on information technology and systems. Citeseer, pp 303–310 Ghose A, Ipeirotis PG (2006) Designing ranking systems for consumer reviews: the impact of review subjectivity on product sales and review quality. In: Proceedings of the 16th annual workshop on information technology and systems. Citeseer, pp 303–310
10.
Zurück zum Zitat Hsu CW, Chang CC, Lin CJ et al (2003) A practical guide to support vector classification Hsu CW, Chang CC, Lin CJ et al (2003) A practical guide to support vector classification
11.
Zurück zum Zitat Hu M, Liu B (2004) Mining and summarizing customer reviews. In: Proceedings of the tenth ACM SIGKDD international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining. ACM, New York, pp 168–177 Hu M, Liu B (2004) Mining and summarizing customer reviews. In: Proceedings of the tenth ACM SIGKDD international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining. ACM, New York, pp 168–177
12.
Zurück zum Zitat Hu N, Zhang J, Pavlou PA (2009) Overcoming the J-shaped distribution of product reviews. Commun ACM 52(10):144–147CrossRef Hu N, Zhang J, Pavlou PA (2009) Overcoming the J-shaped distribution of product reviews. Commun ACM 52(10):144–147CrossRef
13.
Zurück zum Zitat Joy CM, Leela S (2013) Review on sentence-level clustering with various fuzzy clustering techniques. Int J Eng 2(12):3510–3513 Joy CM, Leela S (2013) Review on sentence-level clustering with various fuzzy clustering techniques. Int J Eng 2(12):3510–3513
14.
Zurück zum Zitat Kennedy A, Inkpen D (2006) Sentiment classification of movie reviews using contextual valence shifters. Comput Intell 22(2):110–125MathSciNetCrossRef Kennedy A, Inkpen D (2006) Sentiment classification of movie reviews using contextual valence shifters. Comput Intell 22(2):110–125MathSciNetCrossRef
15.
Zurück zum Zitat Kim SM, Pantel P, Chklovski T, Pennacchiotti M (2006) Automatically assessing review helpfulness. In: Proceedings of the 2006 conference on empirical methods in natural language processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp 423–430 Kim SM, Pantel P, Chklovski T, Pennacchiotti M (2006) Automatically assessing review helpfulness. In: Proceedings of the 2006 conference on empirical methods in natural language processing. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp 423–430
16.
Zurück zum Zitat Liu J, Cao Y, Lin CY, Huang Y, Zhou M (2007) Low-quality product review detection in opinion summarization. In: Proceedings of the joint conference on empirical methods in natural language processing and computational natural language learning (EMNLP-CoNLL), pp 334–342 Liu J, Cao Y, Lin CY, Huang Y, Zhou M (2007) Low-quality product review detection in opinion summarization. In: Proceedings of the joint conference on empirical methods in natural language processing and computational natural language learning (EMNLP-CoNLL), pp 334–342
17.
Zurück zum Zitat Lu Y, Zhang P, Liu J, Li J, Deng S (2013) Health-related hot topic detection in online communities using text clustering. PloS One 8(2):e56221 Lu Y, Zhang P, Liu J, Li J, Deng S (2013) Health-related hot topic detection in online communities using text clustering. PloS One 8(2):e56221
18.
Zurück zum Zitat Miller GA (1995) Wordnet: a lexical database for english. Commun ACM 38(11):39–41 Miller GA (1995) Wordnet: a lexical database for english. Commun ACM 38(11):39–41
19.
Zurück zum Zitat Miller GA, Beckwith R, Fellbaum C, Gross D, Miller KJ (1990) Introduction to wordnet: an on-line lexical database*. Int J Lexicogr 3(4):235–244CrossRef Miller GA, Beckwith R, Fellbaum C, Gross D, Miller KJ (1990) Introduction to wordnet: an on-line lexical database*. Int J Lexicogr 3(4):235–244CrossRef
20.
Zurück zum Zitat Nadali S, Murad MAA, Kadir RA (2010) Sentiment classification of customer reviews based on fuzzy logic. In: 2010 international symposium in information technology (ITSim), vol 2. IEEE, pp 1037–1044 Nadali S, Murad MAA, Kadir RA (2010) Sentiment classification of customer reviews based on fuzzy logic. In: 2010 international symposium in information technology (ITSim), vol 2. IEEE, pp 1037–1044
21.
Zurück zum Zitat Narayanan R, Liu B, Choudhary A (2009) Sentiment analysis of conditional sentences. In: Proceedings of the 2009 conference on empirical methods in natural language processing, vol 1. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp 180–189 Narayanan R, Liu B, Choudhary A (2009) Sentiment analysis of conditional sentences. In: Proceedings of the 2009 conference on empirical methods in natural language processing, vol 1. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp 180–189
22.
Zurück zum Zitat Pang B, Lee L (2004) A sentimental education: sentiment analysis using subjectivity summarization based on minimum cuts. In: Proceedings of the 42nd annual meeting on association for computational linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, p 271 Pang B, Lee L (2004) A sentimental education: sentiment analysis using subjectivity summarization based on minimum cuts. In: Proceedings of the 42nd annual meeting on association for computational linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, p 271
23.
Zurück zum Zitat Pessemier EA (1959) A new way to determine buying decisions. J Mark 24(2):41–46CrossRef Pessemier EA (1959) A new way to determine buying decisions. J Mark 24(2):41–46CrossRef
24.
Zurück zum Zitat Polanyi L, Zaenen A (2006) Contextual valence shifters. In: Computing attitude and affect in text: theory and applications. Springer, New York, pp 1–10 Polanyi L, Zaenen A (2006) Contextual valence shifters. In: Computing attitude and affect in text: theory and applications. Springer, New York, pp 1–10
25.
Zurück zum Zitat Quirk R, Crystal D (1985) A comprehensive grammar of the English language, vol 6. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge Quirk R, Crystal D (1985) A comprehensive grammar of the English language, vol 6. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge
26.
Zurück zum Zitat Sauper C, Haghighi A, Barzilay R (2011) Content models with attitude. In: Proceedings of the 49th annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics: human language technologies, vol 1. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp 350–358 Sauper C, Haghighi A, Barzilay R (2011) Content models with attitude. In: Proceedings of the 49th annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics: human language technologies, vol 1. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp 350–358
27.
Zurück zum Zitat Schapire RE, Singer Y (2000) Boostexter: a boosting-based system for text categorization. Mach Learn 39(2–3):135–168CrossRefMATH Schapire RE, Singer Y (2000) Boostexter: a boosting-based system for text categorization. Mach Learn 39(2–3):135–168CrossRefMATH
28.
Zurück zum Zitat Stanford NLP Group (2005) Stanford parser. Retrieved 12(1):2005 Stanford NLP Group (2005) Stanford parser. Retrieved 12(1):2005
29.
Zurück zum Zitat Stoyanov V, Cardie C (2008) Topic identification for fine-grained opinion analysis. In: Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on computational linguistics, vol 1. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp 817–824 Stoyanov V, Cardie C (2008) Topic identification for fine-grained opinion analysis. In: Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on computational linguistics, vol 1. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp 817–824
30.
Zurück zum Zitat Taboada M, Brooke J, Tofiloski M, Voll K, Stede M (2011) Lexicon-based methods for sentiment analysis. Comput Linguist 37(2):267–307CrossRef Taboada M, Brooke J, Tofiloski M, Voll K, Stede M (2011) Lexicon-based methods for sentiment analysis. Comput Linguist 37(2):267–307CrossRef
31.
Zurück zum Zitat Tian P, Liu Y, Liu M, Zhu S (2009) Research of product ranking technology based on opinion mining. In: Second international conference on intelligent computation technology and automation (ICICTA’09), vol 4. IEEE, pp 239–243 Tian P, Liu Y, Liu M, Zhu S (2009) Research of product ranking technology based on opinion mining. In: Second international conference on intelligent computation technology and automation (ICICTA’09), vol 4. IEEE, pp 239–243
32.
Zurück zum Zitat Traylor MB (1981) Product involvement and brand commitment. J Advert Res 21(6):51–56 Traylor MB (1981) Product involvement and brand commitment. J Advert Res 21(6):51–56
33.
Zurück zum Zitat Turney PD (2002) Thumbs up or thumbs down? Semantic orientation applied to unsupervised classification of reviews. In: Proceedings of the 40th annual meeting on association for computational linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp 417–424 Turney PD (2002) Thumbs up or thumbs down? Semantic orientation applied to unsupervised classification of reviews. In: Proceedings of the 40th annual meeting on association for computational linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, pp 417–424
34.
Zurück zum Zitat Wang X, McCallum A, Wei X (2007) Topical n-grams: phrase and topic discovery, with an application to information retrieval. In: Seventh IEEE international conference on data mining (ICDM’07). IEEE, pp 697–702 Wang X, McCallum A, Wei X (2007) Topical n-grams: phrase and topic discovery, with an application to information retrieval. In: Seventh IEEE international conference on data mining (ICDM’07). IEEE, pp 697–702
35.
Zurück zum Zitat Wiener E, Pedersen JO, Weigend AS et al (1995) A neural network approach to topic spotting. In: Proceedings of SDAIR-95, 4th annual symposium on document analysis and information retrieval. Citeseer, pp 317–332 Wiener E, Pedersen JO, Weigend AS et al (1995) A neural network approach to topic spotting. In: Proceedings of SDAIR-95, 4th annual symposium on document analysis and information retrieval. Citeseer, pp 317–332
36.
Zurück zum Zitat Wilson T, Wiebe J, Hoffmann P (2009) Recognizing contextual polarity: an exploration of features for phrase-level sentiment analysis. Comput Linguist 35(3):399–433CrossRef Wilson T, Wiebe J, Hoffmann P (2009) Recognizing contextual polarity: an exploration of features for phrase-level sentiment analysis. Comput Linguist 35(3):399–433CrossRef
37.
Zurück zum Zitat Zhang K, Cheng Y, Liao W, Choudhary A (2011) Mining millions of reviews: a technique to rank products based on importance of reviews. In: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on electronic commerce. ACM, New York, p 12 Zhang K, Cheng Y, Liao W, Choudhary A (2011) Mining millions of reviews: a technique to rank products based on importance of reviews. In: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on electronic commerce. ACM, New York, p 12
38.
Zurück zum Zitat Zhang K, Cheng Y, Xie Y, Honbo D, Agrawal A, Palsetia D, Lee K, Liao W, Choudhary A (2011) SES: sentiment elicitation system for social media data. In: 2011 IEEE 11th international conference on data mining workshops (ICDMW). IEEE, pp 129–136 Zhang K, Cheng Y, Xie Y, Honbo D, Agrawal A, Palsetia D, Lee K, Liao W, Choudhary A (2011) SES: sentiment elicitation system for social media data. In: 2011 IEEE 11th international conference on data mining workshops (ICDMW). IEEE, pp 129–136
39.
Zurück zum Zitat Zhang K, Narayanan R, Choudhary A (2010) Voice of the customers: mining online customer reviews for product feature-based ranking. In: 3rd workshop on online social networks Zhang K, Narayanan R, Choudhary A (2010) Voice of the customers: mining online customer reviews for product feature-based ranking. In: 3rd workshop on online social networks
Metadaten
Titel
CAPRA: a comprehensive approach to product ranking using customer reviews
verfasst von
Erfan Najmi
Khayyam Hashmi
Zaki Malik
Abdelmounaam Rezgui
Habib Ullah Khan
Publikationsdatum
01.08.2015
Verlag
Springer Vienna
Erschienen in
Computing / Ausgabe 8/2015
Print ISSN: 0010-485X
Elektronische ISSN: 1436-5057
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-015-0439-8

Premium Partner