A study of opinion mining and visualization of hotel reviews

  • Authors:
  • Eivind Bjørkelund;Thomas H. Burnett;Kjetil Nørvåg

  • Affiliations:
  • Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway;Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway;Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Travel websites like TripAdvisor are nowadays important tools for travelers when deciding which hotels to stay in, and what restaurants and tourist attractions to visit. In this paper, we study opinion mining applied on data from travel review sites. We also describe how the results of sentiment analysis of textual reviews can be visualized using Google Maps, providing possibilities for users to easily detect good hotels and good areas to stay in. More advanced features also provides for faceted and filtered visualization. An evaluation of the techniques presented, shows high accuracy in opinion mining, and that the prototype can help detect hotel features and possible reasons for changes in opinion as well as show "good" and "bad" geographical areas based on hotel reviews.