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Consumers are used to consulting posted reviews on the Internet before buying a product. But it's difficult to know the global opinion considering the important number of those reviews. Sentiment analysis afford detecting polarity…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at providing information acquired during pretraining on large-scale corpora and following instructions through user prompts. This study investigates whether the quality of LLM responses varies depending on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Manon Reusens , Philipp Borchert , Jochen De Weerdt , Bart Baesens

Previous work indicates that large language models exhibit a significant "English bias", i.e. they often perform better when tasks are presented in English. Interestingly, we have observed that using certain other languages in reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Changjiang Gao , Xu Huang , Wenhao Zhu , Shujian Huang , Lei Li , Fei Yuan

Research on customer satisfaction has increased substantially in recent years. However, the relative importance and relationships between different determinants of satisfaction remains uncertain. Moreover, quantitative studies to date tend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Radoslaw Kowalski , Marc Esteve , Slava J. Mikhaylov

As Machine Translation (MT) becomes increasingly commonplace, understanding how the general public perceives and relies on imperfect MT is crucial for contextualizing MT research in real-world applications. We present a human study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yimin Xiao , Yongle Zhang , Dayeon Ki , Calvin Bao , Marianna J. Martindale , Charlotte Vaughn , Ge Gao , Marine Carpuat

The substitute-based recommendation is widely used in E-commerce to provide better alternatives to customers. However, existing research typically uses the customer behavior signals like co-view and view-but-purchase-another to capture the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Wenting Ye , Hongfei Yang , Shuai Zhao , Haoyang Fang , Xingjian Shi , Naveen Neppalli

Sentiment analysis (SA) systems are widely deployed in many of the world's languages, and there is well-documented evidence of demographic bias in these systems. In languages beyond English, scarcer training data is often supplemented with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Seraphina Goldfarb-Tarrant , Björn Ross , Adam Lopez

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used in natural language processing tasks. Recommender systems traditionally use methods such as collaborative filtering and matrix factorization, as well as advanced techniques like deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Makbule Gulcin Ozsoy

We analyzed publications data in WoS and Scopus to compare publications in native languages vs publications in English and find any distinctive patterns. We analyzed their distribution by research areas, languages, type of access and…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Olga Moskaleva , Mark Akoev

Consumers often resort to third-party information such as word of mouth, testimonials and reviews to learn more about the quality of a new product. However, it may be difficult for consumers to assess the precision of such information. We…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-04-27 Mohsen Foroughifar , David Soberman

Online reviews enable consumers to engage with companies and provide important feedback. Due to the complexity of the high-dimensional text, these reviews are often simplified as a single numerical score, e.g., ratings or sentiment scores.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Lu Cheng , Ruocheng Guo , Huan Liu

Todays world is a world of Internet, almost all work can be done with the help of it, from simple mobile phone recharge to biggest business deals can be done with the help of this technology. People spent their most of the times on surfing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-06-17 Richa Sharma , Shweta Nigam , Rekha Jain

This work quantifies the effects of signaling and performing gender on the success of reviews written on the popular amazon shopping platform. Highly rated reviews play an important role in e-commerce since they are prominently displayed…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Sandipan Sikdar , Rachneet Singh Sachdeva , Johannes Wachs , Florian Lemmerich , Markus Strohmaier

Just as user preferences change with time, item reviews also reflect those same preference changes. In a nutshell, if one is to sequentially incorporate review content knowledge into recommender systems, one is naturally led to dynamical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Kostadin Cvejoski , Ramses J. Sanchez , Christian Bauckhage , Cesar Ojeda

Search engines could consistently favor certain values over the others, which is considered as biased due to the built-in infrastructures. Many studies have been dedicated to detect, control, and mitigate the impacts of the biases from the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Bin Han , Chirag Shah , Daniel Saelid

English has long been set as the universal language. Basically most, if not all countries in the world know how to speak English or at least try to use it in their everyday communications for the purpose of globalizing. This study is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Rosalyn P. Reyes , Evelyn C. Samson , Julius G. Garcia

Fake review identification is an important topic and has gained the interest of experts all around the world. Identifying fake reviews is challenging for researchers, and there are several primary challenges to fake review detection. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Amira Yousif , James Buckley

A language can have different varieties. These varieties can affect the performance of natural language processing (NLP) models, including large language models (LLMs), which are often trained on data from widely spoken varieties. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Zixin Tang , Chieh-Yang Huang , Tsung-Che Li , Ho Yin Sam Ng , Hen-Hsen Huang , Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang

Finding a product online can be a challenging task for users. Faceted search interfaces, often in combination with recommenders, can support users in finding a product that fits their preferences. However, those preferences are not always…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Dagmar Kern , Wilko van Hoek , Daniel Hienert

Modeling and prediction of review helpfulness has become more predominant due to proliferation of e-commerce websites and online shops. Since the functionality of a product cannot be tested before buying, people often rely on different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Iyiola E. Olatunji , Xin Li , Wai Lam