Opinion extraction from customer reviews

Han Tong Loh, Jie Sun, Jingjing Wang, Wen Feng Lu

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Abstract

The internet offers a new channel for product designers to obtain valuable information about customer's opinions which are very important to product development, especially at the product concept design stage. Due to the rapid growth of such information, it is difficult for humans to manage and analyze all these information. Therefore, an alternative choice is to perform opinion mining with automatic textual mining techniques. In this research, we propose a hybrid opinion extraction (HOE) framework that can extract features and predict semantic orientation of the expressed opinions, from the free format text. The framework is inspired by capturing the characteristics of the way people express opinions, utilizes both statistical regularities of the patterns and some prior knowledge. Compared to previous work, our opinion mining technique has demonstrated its better performance in terms of extracting features and predicting semantic orientations of opinions. Thus it has the potential to be adopted by product designers as an efficient tool for quickly obtaining customer feedback.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2009, DETC2009
Pages753-758
Number of pages6
EditionPART A
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event2009 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2009 - San Diego, CA, United States
Duration: 30 Aug 20092 Sept 2009

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2009, DETC2009
NumberPART A
Volume2

Conference

Conference2009 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego, CA
Period30/08/092/09/09

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