Mining feature-opinion pairs and their reliability scores from web opinion sources

  • Authors:
  • Ahmad Kamal;Muhammad Abulaish;Tarique Anwar

  • Affiliations:
  • Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India;King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Due to proliferation of Web 2.0, there is an exponential growth in user generated contents in the form of customer reviews on the Web, containing precious information useful for both customers and manufacturers. However, most of the contents are stored in either unstructured or semi-structured format due to which distillation of knowledge from this huge repository is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a text mining approach to mine product features, opinions and their reliability scores from Web opinion sources. A rule-based system is implemented, which applies linguistic and semantic analysis of texts to mine feature-opinion pairs that have sentence-level co-occurrence in review documents. The extracted feature-opinion pairs and source documents are modeled using a bipartite graph structure. Considering feature-opinion pairs as hubs and source documents as authorities, Hyperlink-Induced Topic Search (HITS) algorithm is applied to generate reliability score for each feature-opinion pair with respect to the underlying corpus. The efficacy of the proposed system is established through experimentation over customer reviews on different models of electronic products.