Sentimental Analysis of Online Reviews Using Fuzzy Sets and Rough Sets

Author(s):  
Anuradha Jagadeesan ◽  
Amit Patil

With the increased interest of online users in E-commerce, the web has become an excellent source for buying and selling of products online. Customer reviews on the web help potential customers to make purchase decisions, and for manufacturers to incorporate improvements in their product or develop new marketing strategies. The increase in customer reviews of a product influence the popularity and the sale rate of the product. This lead to a very important question about the analysis of the sentiments (opinions) expressed in the reviews. As such internet does not have any quality control over customer reviews and it could vary in terms of its quality. Also the trustworthiness of the online reviews is debatable. Sentiment Analysis (SA) or Opinion Mining is the computational analysis of opinions, sentiments, emotions and subjectivity of text. In this chapter, we take a look at the various research challenges and a new dimension involved in sentiment analysis using fuzzy sets and rough sets.

2017 ◽  
Vol 139 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huimin Jiang ◽  
C. K. Kwong ◽  
K. L. Yung

Previous studies conducted customer surveys based on questionnaires and interviews, and the survey data were then utilized to analyze product features. In recent years, online customer reviews on products became extremely popular, which contain rich information on customer opinions and expectations. However, previous studies failed to properly address the determination of the importance of product features and prediction of their future importance based on online reviews. Accordingly, a methodology for predicting future importance weights of product features based on online customer reviews is proposed in this paper which mainly involves opinion mining, a fuzzy inference method, and a fuzzy time series method. Opinion mining is adopted to analyze the online reviews and extract product features. A fuzzy inference method is used to determine the importance weights of product features using both frequencies and sentiment scores obtained from opinion mining. A fuzzy time series method is adopted to predict the future importance of product features. A case study on electric irons was conducted to illustrate the proposed methodology. To evaluate the effectiveness of the fuzzy time series method in predicting the future importance, the results obtained by the fuzzy time series method are compared with those obtained by the three common forecasting methods. The results of the comparison show that the prediction results based on fuzzy time series method are better than those based on exponential smoothing, simple moving average, and fuzzy moving average methods.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jooa Baek ◽  
Yeongbae Choe

Online customer reviews increasingly influence customer purchase decisions. Indeed, many customers have highlighted the significance of online reviews as an influential source of information. This study reports an investigation of the differential effects of online reviews, such as valence and volume, on the customer share of visits. Our findings suggest that valence (i.e., star rating) had more effect, giving a higher average check size to restaurants on the share of visits, while number reviews (volume) did not drive the share of visits to restaurants regardless of the average check size. Therefore, the ideal for casual dining restaurant brands would be to manage highly positive ratings to retain their customers.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago de Melo

Online reviews are readily available on the Web and widely used for decision-making. However, only a few studies on Portuguese sentiment analysis are reported due to the lack of resources including domain-specific sentiment lexical collections. In this paper, we present an effective methodology using probabilities of the Bayes’ Theorem for building a set of lexicons, called SentiProdBR, for 10 different product categories for the Portuguese language. Experimental results indicate that our methodology significantly outperforms several alternative approaches of building domain-specific sentiment lexicons.


2022 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Divya Mittal ◽  
Shiv Ratan Agrawal

PurposeThe current study employs text mining and sentiment analysis to identify core banking service attributes and customer sentiment in online user-generated reviews. Additionally, the study explains customer satisfaction based on the identified predictors.Design/methodology/approachA total of 32,217 customer reviews were collected across 29 top banks on bankbazaar.com posted from 2014 to 2021. In total three conceptual models were developed and evaluated employing regression analysis.FindingsThe study revealed that all variables were found to be statistically significant and affect customer satisfaction in their respective models except the interest rate.Research limitations/implicationsThe study is confined to the geographical representation of its subjects' i.e. Indian customers. A cross-cultural and socioeconomic background analysis of banking customers in different countries may help to better generalize the findings.Practical implicationsThe study makes essential theoretical and managerial contributions to the existing literature on services, particularly the banking sector.Originality/valueThis paper is unique in nature that focuses on banking customer satisfaction from online reviews and ratings using text mining and sentiment analysis.


Author(s):  
ThippaReddy Gadekallu ◽  
Akshat Soni ◽  
Deeptanu Sarkar ◽  
Lakshmanna Kuruva

Sentiment analysis is a sub-domain of opinion mining where the analysis is focused on the extraction of emotions and opinions of the people towards a particular topic from a structured, semi-structured, or unstructured textual data. In this chapter, the authors try to focus the task of sentiment analysis on IMDB movie review database. This chapter presents the experimental work on a new kind of domain-specific feature-based heuristic for aspect-level sentiment analysis of movie reviews. The authors have devised an aspect-oriented scheme that analyzes the textual reviews of a movie and assign it a sentiment label on each aspect. Finally, the authors conclude that incorporating syntactical information in the models is vital to the sentiment analysis process. The authors also conclude that the proposed approach to sentiment classification supplements the existing rating movie rating systems used across the web and will serve as base to future researches in this domain.


2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 544-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryam Ghasemaghaei ◽  
Seyed Pouyan Eslami ◽  
Ken Deal ◽  
Khaled Hassanein

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to identify and validate reviews’ length and sentiment as correlates of online reviews’ ratings; and second, to understand the emotions embedded in online reviews and how they associate with specific words used in such reviews. Design/methodology/approach A panel data set of customer reviews was collected for auto, life, and home insurance from January 2012 to December 2015 using a web scraping technique. Using a sentiment analysis approach, 1,584 reviews for the auto, home, and life insurance services of 156 insurance companies were analyzed. Findings The results indicate that, since 2013, consumers have generally had more negative emotions than positive ones toward insurance services. The results also show that consumer review sentiment correlates positively and review length correlates negatively with consumer online review ratings. Furthermore, a two-way ANOVA analysis shows that, in general, short reviews with positive sentiment are associated with high review ratings. Practical implications The findings of this study provide service companies, in general, and insurance companies, in particular, with important guidelines that should be considered to increase consumers’ positive attitude toward their services. Originality/value This paper highlights the importance of sentiment analysis in identifying consumer reviews’ emotions and understanding the associations and interactions of reviews’ length and sentiment on online review rating, which can lead to improved marketing strategies.


Author(s):  
Neha V. Thakare

Abstract: Sentiment Analysis is that the most ordinarily used approach to research knowledge that is within the form of text and to identify sentiment content from the text. Opinion Mining is another name for sentiment analysis. a good vary of text data is getting generated within the form of suggestions, feedback, tweets, and comments. E-Commerce portals area unit generating tons of data. Every day within the form of customer reviews. Analyzing E-Commerce data can facilitate on-line retailers to grasp customer expectations, offer an improved searching expertise, and to extend sales. Sentiment Analysis can be used to identify positive, negative, and neutral information from the customer reviews. Researchers have developed a lot of techniques in Sentiment Analysis. Keywords: Sentiment analysis, Sentiment classification, Feature selection, Emotion detection, Customer Reviews;


2019 ◽  
Vol 141 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dedy Suryadi ◽  
Harrison M. Kim

Abstract This paper proposes a data-driven methodology to automatically identify product usage contexts from online customer reviews. Product usage context is one of the factors that affect product design, consumer behavior, and consumer satisfaction. The previous works identify the usage contexts using the survey-based method or subjectively determine them. The proposed methodology, on the other hand, uses machine learning and Natural Language Processing tools to identify and cluster usage contexts from a large volume of customer reviews. Furthermore, aspect sentiment analysis is applied to capture the sentiment toward a particular usage context in a sentence. The methodology is implemented to two data sets of products, i.e., laptop and tablet. The result shows that the methodology is able to capture relevant product usage contexts and cluster bigrams that refer to similar usage context. The aspect sentiment analysis enables the observation of a product’s position with respect to its competitors for a particular usage context. For a product designer, the observation may indicate a requirement to improve the product. It may also indicate a possible market opportunity in a usage context in which most of the current products are perceived negatively by customers. Finally, it is shown that overall rating might not be a strong indicator for representing customer sentiment toward a particular usage context, due to the moderate linear correlation for most of the usage contexts in the case study.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Junegak Joung ◽  
Harrison M. Kim

Abstract Identifying product attributes from the perspective of a customer is essential to measure the satisfaction, importance, and Kano category of each product attribute for product design. This paper proposes automated keyword filtering to identify product attributes from online customer reviews based on latent Dirichlet allocation. The preprocessing for latent Dirichlet allocation is important because it affects the results of topic modeling; however, previous research performed latent Dirichlet allocation either without removing noise keywords or by manually eliminating them. The proposed method improves the preprocessing for latent Dirichlet allocation by conducting automated filtering to remove the noise keywords that are not related to the product. A case study of Android smartphones is performed to validate the proposed method. The performance of the latent Dirichlet allocation by the proposed method is compared to that of a previous method, and according to the latent Dirichlet allocation results, the former exhibits a higher performance than the latter.


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