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Machine Learning
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Discretization: An Enabling Technique
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
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IJCAI'95 Proceedings of the 14th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
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Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Bayesian belief network for box-office performance: A case study on Korean movies
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Forecasting box office revenue of movies with BP neural network
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Decision Support Systems
Movie reviews and revenues: an experiment in text regression
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Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Designing a social-broadcasting-based business intelligence system
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
Whose and what chatter matters? The effect of tweets on movie sales
Decision Support Systems
Pre-release box-office success prediction for motion pictures
MLDM'13 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition
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Predicting box-office receipts of a particular motion picture has intrigued many scholars and industry leaders as a difficult and challenging problem. In this study, the use of neural networks in predicting the financial performance of a movie at the box-office before its theatrical release is explored. In our model, the forecasting problem is converted into a classification problem-rather than forecasting the point estimate of box-office receipts, a movie based on its box-office receipts in one of nine categories is classified, ranging from a 'flop' to a 'blockbuster.' Because our model is designed to predict the expected revenue range of a movie before its theatrical release, it can be used as a powerful decision aid by studios, distributors, and exhibitors. Our prediction results is presented using two performance measures: average percent success rate of classifying a movie's success exactly, or within one class of its actual performance. Comparison of our neural network to models proposed in the recent literature as well as other statistical techniques using a 10-fold cross validation methodology shows that the neural networks do a much better job of predicting in this setting.