Capturing the stars: predicting ratings for service and product reviews

  • Authors:
  • Narendra Gupta;Giuseppe Di Fabbrizio;Patrick Haffner

  • Affiliations:
  • AT&T Labs - Research, Inc., Florham Park, NJ;AT&T Labs - Research, Inc., Florham Park, NJ;AT&T Labs - Research, Inc., Florham Park, NJ

  • Venue:
  • SS '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Workshop on Semantic Search
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Bloggers, professional reviewers, and consumers continuously create opinion--rich web reviews about products and services, with the result that textual reviews are now abundant on the web and often convey a useful overall rating (number of stars). However, an overall rating cannot express the multiple or conflicting opinions that might be contained in the text, or explicitly rate the different aspects of the evaluated entity. This work addresses the task of automatically predicting ratings, for given aspects of a textual review, by assigning a numerical score to each evaluated aspect in the reviews. We handle this task as both a regression and a classification modeling problem and explore several combinations of syntactic and semantic features. Our results suggest that classification techniques perform better than ranking modeling when handling evaluative text.