Identifying key product attributes and their importance levels from online customer reviews

Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference

Volumn 3, Issue PARTS A AND B, 2012, Pages 533-540

  Rai, Rahul ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Customer needs and preference modeling; Online customer reviews; Part of speech (pos) tagging; Product attribute ranking metrics; Text mining

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; SALES; SYNTACTICS; VIDEO CAMERAS;

ATTRIBUTE RANKING; CUSTOMER NEED; CUSTOMER NEED AND PREFERENCE MODELING; CUSTOMER PREFERENCES; NEEDS MODELING; ONLINE CUSTOMER REVIEWS; PART OF SPEECH TAGGING; PARTS-OF-SPEECH TAGGING; PREFERENCE MODELS; PRODUCT ATTRIBUTE RANKING METRIC; PRODUCT ATTRIBUTES; TEXT-MINING;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84884643841     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/DETC2012-70493     Document Type: Conference Paper

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