Visualizing market structure through online product reviews: Integrate topic modeling, TOPSIS, and multi-dimensional scaling approaches

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 58-74

  Chen, Kun ^a   Kou, Gang ^b   Shang, Jennifer ^c   Chen, Yang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Market structure; Ranking of products; Text mining; Topic modeling; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELLULAR TELEPHONES; COMMERCE; FILTRATION; MOBILE PHONES; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE SETS;

MARKET STRUCTURES; RANKING OF PRODUCTS; TEXT MINING; TOPIC MODELING; TOPSIS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84925010368     PISSN: 15674223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.elerap.2014.11.004     Document Type: Article

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