Latent aspect rating analysis on review text data: A rating regression approach

Hongning Wang, Yue Lu, Chengxiang Zhai

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Abstract

In this paper, we define and study a new opinionated text data analysis problem called Latent Aspect Rating Analysis (LARA), which aims at analyzing opinions expressed about an entity in an online review at the level of topical aspects to discover each individual reviewer's latent opinion on each aspect as well as the relative emphasis on different aspects when forming the overall judgment of the entity. We propose a novel probabilistic rating regression model to solve this new text mining problem in a general way. Empirical experiments on a hotel review data set show that the proposed latent rating regression model can effectively solve the problem of LARA, and that the detailed analysis of opinions at the level of topical aspects enabled by the proposed model can support a wide range of application tasks, such as aspect opinion summarization, entity ranking based on aspect ratings, and analysis of reviewers rating behavior.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationKDD'10 - Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data
Pages783-792
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010
Event16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD-2010 - Washington, DC, United States
Duration: Jul 25 2010Jul 28 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Other

Other16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD-2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington, DC
Period7/25/107/28/10

Keywords

  • Latent rating analysis
  • Opinion and sentiment analysis
  • Review mining

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Information Systems

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