Product weakness finder: An opinion-aware system through sentiment analysis

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1301-1320

  Wang, Hongwei ^a   Wang, Wei ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Comparison network; Online review; Product aspect; Product weakness; PRODWeakFinder; Sentiment analysis

Indexed keywords

SENTIMENT ANALYSIS;

COMPARISON NETWORKS; ONLINE REVIEWS; PRODUCT ASPECTS; PRODUCT WEAKNESS; PRODWEAKFINDER;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84908464571     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IMDS-05-2014-0159     Document Type: Article

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