Unmask inflated product reviews through Machine Learning

Author(s):  
Micaela Lucia Bangerter ◽  
Giuseppe Fenza ◽  
Mariacristina Gallo ◽  
Alessia Genovese ◽  
Francesco David Nota ◽  
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2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
D. Anand Joseph Daniel ◽  
M. Janaki Meena

Sentiment analysis of online product reviews has become a mainstream way for businesses on e-commerce platforms to promote their products and improve user satisfaction. Hence, it is necessary to construct an automatic sentiment analyser for automatic identification of sentiment polarity of the online product reviews. Traditional lexicon-based approaches used for sentiment analysis suffered from several accuracy issues while machine learning techniques require labelled training data. This paper introduces a hybrid sentiment analysis framework to bond the gap between both machine learning and lexicon-based approaches. A novel tunicate swarm algorithm (TSA) based feature reduction is integrated with the proposed hybrid method to solve the scalability issue that arises due to a large feature set. It reduces the feature set size to 43% without changing the accuracy (93%). Besides, it improves the scalability, reduces the computation time and enhances the overall performance of the proposed framework. From experimental analysis, it can be observed that TSA outperforms existing feature selection techniques such as particle swarm optimization and genetic algorithm. Moreover, the proposed approach is analysed with performance metrics such as recall, precision, F1-score, feature size and computation time.


Author(s):  
Dimple Chehal ◽  
Parul Gupta ◽  
Payal Gulati

Sentiment analysis of product reviews on e-commerce platforms aids in determining the preferences of customers. Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) assists in identifying the contributing aspects and their corresponding polarity, thereby allowing for a more detailed analysis of the customer’s inclination toward product aspects. This analysis helps in the transition from the traditional rating-based recommendation process to an improved aspect-based process. To automate ABSA, a labelled dataset is required to train a supervised machine learning model. As the availability of such dataset is limited due to the involvement of human efforts, an annotated dataset has been provided here for performing ABSA on customer reviews of mobile phones. The dataset comprising of product reviews of Apple-iPhone11 has been manually annotated with predefined aspect categories and aspect sentiments. The dataset’s accuracy has been validated using state-of-the-art machine learning techniques such as Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machine, Logistic Regression, Random Forest, K-Nearest Neighbor and Multi Layer Perceptron, a sequential model built with Keras API. The MLP model built through Keras Sequential API for classifying review text into aspect categories produced the most accurate result with 67.45 percent accuracy. K- nearest neighbor performed the worst with only 49.92 percent accuracy. The Support Vector Machine had the highest accuracy for classifying review text into aspect sentiments with an accuracy of 79.46 percent. The model built with Keras API had the lowest 76.30 percent accuracy. The contribution is beneficial as a benchmark dataset for ABSA of mobile phone reviews.


E-commerce is evolving at a rapid pace that new doors have been opened for the people to express their emotions towards the products. The opinions of the customers plays an important role in the e-commerce sites. It is practically a tedious job to analyze the opinions of users and form a pros and cons for respective products. This paper develops a solution through machine learning algorithms by pre-processing the reviews based on features of mobile products. This mainly focus on aspect level of opinions which uses SentiWordNet, Natural Language Processing and aggregate scores for analyzing the text reviews. The experimental results provide the visual representation of products which provide better understanding of product reviews rather than reading through long textual reviews which includes strengths and weakness of the product using Naive Bayes algorithm. This results also helps the e-commerce vendors to overcome the weakness of the products and meet the customer expectations.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-22
Author(s):  
Tirath Prasad Sahu ◽  
Sarang Khandekar

Sentiment analysis can be a very useful aspect for the extraction of useful information from text documents. The main idea for sentiment analysis is how people think for a particular online review, i.e. product reviews, movie reviews, etc. Sentiment analysis is the process where these reviews are classified as positive or negative. The web is enriched with huge amount of reviews which can be analyzed to make it meaningful. This article presents the use of lexicon resources for sentiment analysis of different publicly available reviews. First, the polarity shift of reviews is handled by negations. Intensifiers, punctuation and acronyms are also taken into consideration during the processing phase. Second, words are extracted which have some opinion; these words are then used for computing score. Third, machine learning algorithms are applied and the experimental results show that the proposed model is effective in identifying the sentiments of reviews and opinions.


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