Ratable Aspects over Sentiments: Predicting Ratings for Unrated Reviews

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Abstract

Most existing rat able aspect generating methods for aspect mining focus on identifying and rating aspects of reviews with overall ratings, while huge amount of unrated reviews are beyond their ability. This drawback motivates the research problem in this paper: predicting aspect ratings and overall ratings for unrated reviews. To solve this problem, we novelly propose a topic model based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation with indirect supervision. Compared with the previous bag-of-words representation of review documents, we utilize the quad-tuples of (head, modifier, rating, entity) to explicitly model the associations between modifiers and ratings. Specifically, our solution for aspect mining in unrated reviews is decomposed into three steps. Firstly, rat able aspects are generated over sentiments from training reviews with overall ratings. Afterwards, inference of aspect identification and rating for unrated reviews are provided. Finally, overall ratings are predicted for unrated reviews. Under this framework, aspect and sentiment associations are captured in the form of joint probabilities through a generative process. The effectiveness of our approach is testified on a real-world dataset crawled from Trip Advisor http://www.tripadvisor.com/, and extensive experiments show that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 14th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2014
EditorsRavi Kumar, Hannu Toivonen, Jian Pei, Joshua Zhexue Huang, Xindong Wu
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages380-389
Number of pages10
EditionJanuary
ISBN (Electronic)9781479943029
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event14th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2014 - Shenzhen, China
Duration: 14 Dec 201417 Dec 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM
NumberJanuary
Volume2015-January
ISSN (Print)1550-4786

Conference

Conference14th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShenzhen
Period14/12/1417/12/14

Keywords

  • Aspect Identification
  • Aspect Rating Prediction
  • Overall Rating Prediction

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