The influence of reviewer engagement characteristics on online review helpfulness: A text regression model

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 47-58

  Ngo Ye, Thomas L ^a   Sinha, Atish P ^b  

^a DALTON STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Online review; Reviewer engagement characteristics; RFM analysis; Text regression; Vector space model

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VECTOR SPACES;

ONLINE REVIEWS; REVIEWER ENGAGEMENT CHARACTERISTICS; RFM ANALYSIS; TEXT REGRESSION; VECTOR SPACE MODELS;

FORECASTING;

EID: 84897510555     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2014.01.011     Document Type: Article

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