Predicting the performance of online consumer reviews: A sentiment mining approach to big data analytics

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 81, Issue , 2016, Pages 30-40

  Salehan, Mohammad ^a   Kim, Dan J ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data analytics; Helpfulness; Online consumer reviews; Readership; Sentiment mining

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DATA MINING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SORTING;

AUTOMATED SYSTEMS; DATA ANALYTICS; HELPFULNESS; NEUTRAL POLARITY; ONLINE CONSUMER REVIEWS; ONLINE VENDORS; READERSHIP;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84952862318     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dss.2015.10.006     Document Type: Article

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