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Needmining: Towards Analytical Support for Service Design

  • Niklas KuehlEmail author
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing book series (LNBIP, volume 247)

Abstract

The identification of customer needs is an important task for Service Design. The paper proposes an approach for automatically detecting customer needs from micro blog data (e.g. Twitter). It shows first results on identification models and lays the foundation for future research in this field.

Keywords

Service design Need elicitation Customer requirement analysis Machine learning Method evaluation 
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Notes

Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank Lisa Schmittecker for her support in the field of need elicitation, Jan Scheurenbrand for his support in implementing the Needmining tool, Marc Goutier for his support with first clustering attempts as well as Gerhard Satzger for his general support.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)KarlsruheGermany

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