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A Hybrid Approach of Opinion Mining and Comparative Linguistic Analysis of Restaurant Reviews

  • Old Dominion University

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Abstract

The existing research on sentiment analysis mainly utilized data curated in limited geographical regions and demography (e.g., USA, UK, China) due to commercial interest and availability of review data. Since the user's attitudes and preferences can be affected by numerous sociocultural factors and demographic characteristics, it is necessary to have annotated review datasets belong to various demography. In this work, we first construct a review dataset BanglaRestaurant that contains over 2300 customer reviews towards a number of Bangladeshi restaurants. Then, we present a hybrid methodology that yields improvement over the best performing lexicon-based and machine learning (ML) based classifier without using any labeled data. Finally, we investigate how the demography (i.e., geography and nativeness in English) of users affect the linguistic characteristics of the reviews by contrasting two datasets, BanglaRestaurant and Yelp. The comparative results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed hybrid approach. The data analysis reveals that demography plays an influential role in the linguistic aspects of reviews.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2021
Subtitle of host publicationDeep Learning for Natural Language Processing Methods and Applications - Proceedings
EditorsGalia Angelova, Maria Kunilovskaya, Ruslan Mitkov, Ivelina Nikolova-Koleva
PublisherIncoma Ltd
Pages1281-1288
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9789544520724
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Methods and Applications, RANLP 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: Sep 1 2021Sep 3 2021

Publication series

NameInternational Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP
ISSN (Print)1313-8502

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing: Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing Methods and Applications, RANLP 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period09/1/2109/3/21

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Software
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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