Analyzing users' sentiment towards popular consumer industries and brands on Twitter

Hu, Guoning; Bhargava, Preeti; Fuhrmann, Saul; Ellinger, Sarah; Spasojevic, Nemanja

doi:10.48550/arxiv.1709.07434

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“…Similarly, Hong et al [26] analyzed online reviews to identify the marketing performance of individual airlines. Instead of relying on OCR, Hu et al [27] utilized tweets pertaining to global airline companies to help them understand their brand perceptions, which is crucial to strategic decision-making. While most of these research works focused on analyzing UGC to help individual companies identify their strengths and weaknesses, very few studies also focused on mining the competitor's UGC to assess potential opportunities and threats (e.g., [4,28]).…”

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Discovering Airline-Specific Business Intelligence from Online Passenger Reviews: An Unsupervised Text Analytics Approach

Srinivas,

Ramachandiran

2020

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Driven by the low passenger satisfaction and fierce competition in the airline industry, carriers seek to deliver a flawless travel experience as well as exceed passenger expectations to attract and retain customers. To understand the important dimensions of service quality from the passenger's perspective and tailor service offerings for competitive advantage, airlines can capitalize on the abundantly available online customer reviews (OCR). The objective of this paper is to discover company-and competitor-specific intelligence from OCR using an unsupervised text analytics approach. First, the key aspects (or topics) discussed in the OCR are extracted using three topic models -probabilistic latent semantic analysis (pLSA) and two variants of Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA-VI and LDA-GS). Subsequently, we propose an ensemble-assisted topic model (EA-TM), which integrates the individual topic models, to classify each review sentence to the most representative aspect. Likewise, to determine the sentiment (positive, neutral and negative) corresponding to a review sentence, an ensemble sentiment analyzer (E-SA), which combines the predictions of three opinion mining methods (AFINN, SentiStrength and VADER), is developed. An aspect-based opinion summary (AOS), which provides a snapshot of passenger-perceived strengths and weaknesses of an airline, is established by consolidating the sentiments associated with each aspect. Furthermore, a bi-gram analysis of the labeled OCR is employed to perform root cause analysis within each identified aspect. A case study involving 99,147 airline reviews of a US-based target carrier and four of its competitors is used to validate the proposed approach. The results indicate that a cost-and time-effective performance summary of an airline and its competitors can be obtained from OCR. Moreover, the proposed EA-TM and E-SA achieved 17-23% and 9-20% higher average accuracy over individual benchmark models, respectively. Finally, besides providing theoretical and managerial implications based on our results, we also provide implications for post-pandemic preparedness in the airline industry considering the unprecedented impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and predictions on similar pandemics in the future.

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Section: Harnessing Unstructured User-generated Content To Gather Ins...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Discovering Airline-Specific Business Intelligence from Online Passenger Reviews: An Unsupervised Text Analytics Approach

Srinivas,

Ramachandiran

2020

Preprint

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Analyzing users' sentiment towards popular consumer industries and brands on Twitter

Cited by 1 publication

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Discovering Airline-Specific Business Intelligence from Online Passenger Reviews: An Unsupervised Text Analytics Approach

Discovering Airline-Specific Business Intelligence from Online Passenger Reviews: An Unsupervised Text Analytics Approach

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