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Yelp online reviews are invaluable source of information for users to choose where to visit or what to eat among numerous available options. But due to overwhelming number of reviews, it is almost impossible for users to go through all…
In this paper, we tackle the real-world problem of predicting Yelp star-review rating based on business features (such as images, descriptions), user features (average previous ratings), and, of particular interest, network properties…
We predict restaurant ratings from Yelp reviews based on Yelp Open Dataset. Data distribution is presented, and one balanced training dataset is built. Two vectorizers are experimented for feature engineering. Four machine learning models…
Online reviews of businesses have become increasingly important in recent years, as customers and even competitors use them to judge the quality of a business. Yelp is one of the most popular websites for users to write such reviews, and it…
We use over 350,000 Yelp reviews on 5,000 restaurants to perform an ablation study on text preprocessing techniques. We also compare the effectiveness of several machine learning and deep learning models on predicting user sentiment…
The impact of ratings on a restaurant plays a major role in attracting future customers to that restaurant. The word of mouth has been systematically replaced with the online reviews. It gives a sense of satisfaction for people to know…
Yelp is one of the largest online searching and reviewing systems for kinds of businesses, including restaurants, shopping, home services et al. Analyzing the real world data from Yelp is valuable in acquiring the interests of users, which…
In this work, we predict the sentiment of restaurant reviews based on a subset of the Yelp Open Dataset. We utilize the meta features and text available in the dataset and evaluate several machine learning and state-of-the-art deep learning…
We present opinion recommendation, a novel task of jointly predicting a custom review with a rating score that a certain user would give to a certain product or service, given existing reviews and rating scores to the product or service by…
Yelp has been one of the most popular local service search engine in US since 2004. It is powered by crowd-sourced text reviews and photo reviews. Restaurant customers and business owners upload photo images to Yelp, including reviewing or…
A business's online, photographic representation can play a crucial role in its success or failure. We use Yelp's image dataset and star-based review system as a measurement of an image's effectiveness in promoting a business. After…
Social Networking accounts for a significant chunk of interest among various online activities~\cite{smith2009social}. The proclivity of being social, online, has been ingrained in us so much that we are actively producing content for the…
Recently Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) models have proven remarkable results for text classification and sentiment analysis. In this paper, we present our approach on the task of classifying business reviews using word embeddings on…
Most of the existing recommender systems are based only on the rating data, and they ignore other sources of information that might increase the quality of recommendations, such as textual reviews, or user and item characteristics.…
In the era of Big Data and Social Computing, the role of customer reviews and ratings can be instrumental in predicting the success and sustainability of businesses. In this paper, we show that, despite the apparent subjectivity of user…
Yelp has served and will continue to serve as a data-driven application. Yelp has published a dataset containing business information, reviews, user information, and check-in information. This paper will examine this dataset to provide…
The United Nations Consumer Protection Guidelines lists "access ... to adequate information ... to make informed choices" as a core consumer protection right. However, problematic online reviews and imperfections in algorithms that detect…
Informatics around public health are increasingly shifting from the professional to the public spheres. In this work, we apply linguistic analytics to restaurant reviews, from Yelp, in order to automatically predict official health…
Recommendation systems are an important units in today's e-commerce applications, such as targeted advertising, personalized marketing and information retrieval. In recent years, the importance of contextual information has motivated…
In online review sites, the analysis of user feedback for assessing its helpfulness for decision-making is usually carried out by locally studying the properties of individual reviews. However, global properties should be considered as well…