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Using an Information Quality Framework to Evaluate the Quality of Product Reviews

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Information Retrieval Technology (AIRS 2009)

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The prevalence of Web2.0 makes the Web an invaluable source of information. For instance, product reviews composed collaboratively by many independent Internet reviewers can help consumers make purchase decisions and enable manufactures to improve their business strategies. As the number of reviews is increasing exponentially, opinion mining is needed to identify important reviews and opinions for users. Most opinion mining approaches try to extract sentimental or bipolar expressions from a large volume of reviews. However, the mining process often ignores the quality of each review and may retrieve useless or even noisy reviews. In this paper, we propose a method for evaluating the quality of information in product reviews. We treat review quality evaluation as a classification problem and employ an effective information quality framework to extract representative review features. Experiments based on an expert-composed data corpus demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches significantly.

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  1. Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Sec. 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

    You-De Tseng & Chien Chin Chen

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, San 31, Hyoja-dong, Nam-gu, 790-784, Pohang, Korea

    Gary Geunbae Lee

  2. School of Computing, The Robert Gordon University, St Andrew Street, AB25 1HG, Aberdeen, UK

    Dawei Song

  3. Microsoft Reseach Asia, 5F Beijing Sigma Center, 49 Zhichun Road, Haidian District, 100190, Beijing, P.R. China

    Chin-Yew Lin

  4. National Institute of Informatics, 2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, 101-8430, Tokyo, Japan

    Akiko Aizawa

  5. School of Literature, Shirayuri College, 1-25 Midorigaoka, Chofu-shi, 182-8525, Tokyo, Japan

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  6. Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, North 14 West 9, Kita-ku. Sapporo-shi, 060-0814, Hokkaido, Japan

    Masaharu Yoshioka

  7. Microsoft Research Asia, 5F Beijing Sigma Center, 49 Zhichun Road, Haidian District, 100190, Beijing, P.R. China

    Tetsuya Sakai

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Tseng, YD., Chen, C.C. (2009). Using an Information Quality Framework to Evaluate the Quality of Product Reviews. In: Lee, G.G., et al. Information Retrieval Technology. AIRS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5839. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04769-5_9

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