Utility scoring of product reviews
Published 1 January 2006
Zhu Zhang, Balaji Varadarajan
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A new task in the ongoing research in text sentiment analysis: predicting utility of product reviews, which is orthogonal to polarity classification and opinion extraction is identified, and regression models are built by incorporating a diverse set of features.
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We identify a new task in the ongoing research in text sentiment analysis: predicting utility of product reviews, which is orthogonal to polarity classification and opinion extraction. We build regression models by incorporating a diverse set of features, and achieve highly competitive performance for utility scoring on three real-world data sets.
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