Relating the Opinion Holder and the Review Accuracy in Sentiment Analysis of Tourist Reviews

摘要

In this paper we propose a sentiment classification method for the categorization of tourist reviews according to the sentiment expressed. We also give the results of the application of our sentiment analysis method on a real data set extracted from the AmFostAcolo tourist review Web site. In our analysis we were focused on investigating the relation between the opinion holder and the accuracy of the review sentiment with the review score. Based on our initial experimental results we concluded that specific characteristics of the opinion holder, like for example his or her reputation, might relate to the accuracy of the opinions expressed in his or her reviews.