Mining online reviews for predicting sales performance: A case study in the movie domain

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 720-734

  Yu, Xiaohui ^a,b   Liu, Yang ^a   Huang, Xiangji ^b   An, Aijun ^b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

prediction; Review mining; sentiment analysis

Indexed keywords

AUTO-REGRESSIVE; COMPLEX NATURE; DATA SETS; ECONOMIC VALUES; PRODUCT SALES; QUALITY FACTORS; SALES PERFORMANCE; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS;

MOTION PICTURES; SALES;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84863236785     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TKDE.2010.269     Document Type: Review

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