Tracking Brand-Associated Polarity-Bearing Topics in User Reviews

Runcong Zhao, Lin Gui, Hanqi Yan, Yulan He


Abstract
Monitoring online customer reviews is important for business organizations to measure customer satisfaction and better manage their reputations. In this paper, we propose a novel dynamic Brand-Topic Model (dBTM) which is able to automatically detect and track brand-associated sentiment scores and polarity-bearing topics from product reviews organized in temporally ordered time intervals. dBTM models the evolution of the latent brand polarity scores and the topic-word distributions over time by Gaussian state space models. It also incorporates a meta learning strategy to control the update of the topic-word distribution in each time interval in order to ensure smooth topic transitions and better brand score predictions. It has been evaluated on a dataset constructed from MakeupAlley reviews and a hotel review dataset. Experimental results show that dBTM outperforms a number of competitive baselines in brand ranking, achieving a good balance of topic coherence and uniqueness, and extracting well-separated polarity-bearing topics across time intervals.1
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2023.tacl-1.24
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Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Volume 11
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2023
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Cambridge, MA
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MIT Press
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404–418
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.tacl-1.24
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10.1162/tacl_a_00555
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Runcong Zhao, Lin Gui, Hanqi Yan, and Yulan He. 2023. Tracking Brand-Associated Polarity-Bearing Topics in User Reviews. Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 11:404–418.
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