Mining opinion features in customer reviews

  • Authors:
  • Minqing Hu;Bing Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, lL;Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, lL

  • Venue:
  • AAAI'04 Proceedings of the 19th national conference on Artifical intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

It is a common practice that merchants selling products on the Web ask their customers to review the products and associated services. As e-commerce is becoming more and more popular, the number of customer reviews that a product receives grows rapidly. For a popular product, the number of reviews can be in hundreds. This makes it difficult for a potential customer to read them in order to make a decision on whether to buy the product. In this project, we aim to summarize all the customer reviews of a product. This summarization task is different from traditional text summarization because we are only interested in the specific features of the product that customers have opinions on and also whether the opinions are positive or negative. We do not summarize the reviews by selecting or rewriting a subset of the original sentences from the reviews to capture their main points as in the classic text summarization. In this paper, we only focus on mining opinion/product features that the reviewers have commented on. A number of techniques are presented to mine such features. Our experimental results show that these techniques are highly effective.