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OpinionSeer: interactive visualization of hotel customer feedback.

Yingcai Wu¹, Furu Wei, Shixia Liu

¹Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong. wuyc@cse.ust.hk

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|October 27, 2010

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OpinionSeer is a new visualization system for analyzing online hotel reviews. It uses opinion mining and uncertainty handling to understand customer feedback effectively.

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Area of Science:

Information Visualization
Human-Computer Interaction
Data Mining

Background:

Increasing volume of online customer reviews necessitates effective analysis tools.
Visual analysis of customer opinions significantly impacts business success.
Existing methods may not adequately handle the uncertainty inherent in subjective opinions.

Purpose of the Study:

To present OpinionSeer, an interactive visualization system for analyzing large-scale online hotel customer reviews.
To introduce a novel visualization-centric opinion mining technique incorporating uncertainty.
To develop new visual representations for conveying customer opinions.

Main Methods:

Developed a visualization-centric opinion mining technique considering uncertainty.
Created new visual representations augmenting scatterplots and radial visualizations.
Utilized subjective logic for handling and organizing opinions with uncertainty.

Main Results:

OpinionSeer enables visual analysis of large collections of online hotel reviews.
The system effectively models and analyzes customer opinions with uncertainty.
Case studies demonstrate OpinionSeer's utility in analyzing multi-dimensional relationships and group comparisons.

Conclusions:

OpinionSeer provides an effective approach for the visual analysis of online customer opinions.
The system's uncertainty-aware technique enhances the faithfulness of opinion modeling.
OpinionSeer is applicable beyond hotel reviews to other product and service feedback analysis.