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Online consumer reviews play a crucial role in guiding purchase decisions by offering insights into product quality, usability, and performance. However, the increasing volume of user-generated reviews has led to information overload,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Muhammad Mufti , Omar Hammad , Mahfuzur Rahman

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Noemi Mauro , Liliana Ardissono , Giovanna Petrone

We study the helpful product reviews identification problem in this paper. We observe that the evidence-conclusion discourse relations, also known as arguments, often appear in product reviews, and we hypothesise that some argument-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Haijing Liu , Yang Gao , Pin Lv , Mengxue Li , Shiqiang Geng , Minglan Li , Hao Wang

We present a neural framework for opinion summarization from online product reviews which is knowledge-lean and only requires light supervision (e.g., in the form of product domain labels and user-provided ratings). Our method combines two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Stefanos Angelidis , Mirella Lapata

This project investigates factors that influence the perceived helpfulness of Amazon product reviews through machine learning techniques. After extensive feature analysis and correlation testing, we identified key metadata characteristics…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Emin Kirimlioglu , Harrison Kung , Dominic Orlando

It is time-consuming to find the best product among many similar alternatives. Comparative sentences can help to contrast one item from others in a way that highlights important features of an item that stand out. Given reviews of one or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Jessica Echterhoff , An Yan , Julian McAuley

Reviews are valuable resources for customers making purchase decisions in online shopping. However, it is impractical for customers to go over the vast number of reviews and manually conclude the prominent opinions, which prompts the need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Wendi Zhou , Ameer Saadat-Yazdi , Nadin Kokciyan

When customers are faced with the task of making a purchase in an unfamiliar product domain, it might be useful to provide them with an overview of the product set to help them understand what they can expect. In this paper we present and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Kittipitch Kuptavanich

The majority of online reviews consist of plain-text feedback together with a single numeric score. However, there are multiple dimensions to products and opinions, and understanding the `aspects' that contribute to users' ratings may help…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-11-01 Julian McAuley , Jure Leskovec , Dan Jurafsky

Recommender systems play a pivotal role in helping users navigate an overwhelming selection of products and services. On online platforms, users have the opportunity to share feedback in various modes, including numerical ratings, textual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Emrul Hasan , Mizanur Rahman , Chen Ding , Jimmy Xiangji Huang , Shaina Raza

Products in an ecommerce catalog contain information-rich fields like description and bullets that can be useful to extract entities (attributes) using NER based systems. However, these fields are often verbose and contain lot of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Prateek Verma , Aliasgar Kutiyanawala , Ke Shen

Reviews contain rich information about product characteristics and user interests and thus are commonly used to boost recommender system performance. Specifically, previous work show that jointly learning to perform review generation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zhouhang Xie , Julian McAuley , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder

We investigate a growing body of work that seeks to improve recommender systems through the use of review text. Generally, these papers argue that since reviews 'explain' users' opinions, they ought to be useful to infer the underlying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Noveen Sachdeva , Julian McAuley

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Tal Hadad

Opinion summarization has been traditionally approached with unsupervised, weakly-supervised and few-shot learning techniques. In this work, we collect a large dataset of summaries paired with user reviews for over 31,000 products, enabling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Arthur Bražinskas , Mirella Lapata , Ivan Titov

Performing effective preference-based data retrieval requires detailed and preferentially meaningful structurized information about the current user as well as the items under consideration. A common problem is that representations of items…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-01-13 Joachim Selke , Wolf-Tilo Balke

Voice assistants provide users a new way of interacting with digital products, allowing them to retrieve information and complete tasks with an increased sense of control and flexibility. Such products are comprised of several machine…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-27 Shachaf Poran , Gil Amsalem , Amit Beka , Dmitri Goldenberg

In the current field of computer vision, automatically generating texts from given images has been a fully worked technique. Up till now, most works of this area focus on image content describing, namely image-captioning. However, rare…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Xuehui Sun , Zihan Zhou , Yuda Fan

User-generated texts such as reviews and social media are valuable sources of information. Online reviews are important assets for users to buy a product, see a movie, or make a decision. Therefore, rating of a review is one of the reliable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Mohammadamir Kavousi , Sepehr Saadatmand

App reviews are crowdsourcing knowledge of user experience with the apps, providing valuable information for app release planning, such as major bugs to fix and important features to add. There exist prior explorations on app review mining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Cuiyun Gao , Yaoxian Li , Shuhan Qi , Yang Liu , Xuan Wang , Zibin Zheng , Qing Liao