Language representation of restaurants: Implications for developing online recommender systems

International Journal of Hospitality Management

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1005-1018

  Xiang, Zheng ^a   Kim, Sang Eun ^b   Hu, Clark ^c   Fesenmaier, Daniel R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer language; Consumer mapping; Recommender systems; Restaurant; Text analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548153303     PISSN: 02784319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhm.2006.12.007     Document Type: Article

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