Authors: | Papakyriakopoulos, Dimitrios Kartaloglou, Elissavet Novas, Dimitrios Griva, Anastasia |
Issue Date: | 1-Sep-2023 |
Journal: | International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management |
Volume: | 114 |
Keywords: | Analytics, Explainability, Fuzzy logic, Latent Dirichlet Allocation, Ranking, Restaurants, TripAdvisor |
Abstract: | User Generated Comments and ranking based on it, has been studied extensively due to its impact on consumers and businesses. Literature highlights that platforms’ rankings might be deceiving due to fake reviews or rates that do not correspond to reality, but existing ranking models are a ‘black box’ thus, they cannot be assessed. This study fills in this gap by proposing a step-by-step ranking model which is based on comments rather than rates or the theoretically established criteria (e.g., food, service, atmosphere), which are not capable to portray the complexity of the dining experience. The proposed ranking model extracts topics from qualitative data (documents) and converts them into quantitative values through the lens of fuzzy logic. The topics are used as the ranking space while, pairwise comparisons between items (restaurants) are performed to extract a ranking ladder. We applied our model to TripAdvisor's documents from restaurants in Athens, Greece. |
ISSN: | 0278-4319 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijhm.2023.103561 |
URI: | https://uniwacris.uniwa.gr/handle/3000/2147 |
Type: | Article |
Department: | Department of Business Administration |
School: | School of Administrative, Economics and Social Sciences |
Affiliation: | University of West Attica (UNIWA) |
Appears in Collections: | Articles / Άρθρα |
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