Α ranking model based on user generated content and fuzzy logic
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) 
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