Electronic word of mouth: A genre analysis of product reviews on consumer opinion Web sites

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Pollach, Irene ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER KNOWLEDGE; CONSUMER OPINION WEB SITES; CORPUS LINGUISTICS; GENRE ANALYSIS; TEXTUAL ANALYSIS;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INTERNET; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LINGUISTICS; TEXT PROCESSING; WEBSITES;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 33749644201     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.146     Document Type: Conference Paper

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