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GRENZE International Journal of Engineering and Technology Vol. 7 (2021), Issue 2

Web-based Tourist’s Review Platform Employing Sentiment Classification based on Aspect Words

Authors

Anindita Ghosh, N. F. Shaikh

Abstract

Consumer reviews in recent times has gained much popularity since the boom of ecommerce and online services for customers around the globe. Nowadays people want to make the best choice in everything they decide to pay for. In travelling services around the world this is also evident as increasing numbers of online travel websites are posting up reviews about particular places and their related hospitality and other services. These reviews are generally provided by the travelers who have already been there in the past and have considerable experience and knowledge about the place and its services. Essentially traveler surveys are data hotspots for sightseers to know about vacation places in advance. Travelers express their perspective opinions and views with respect to any place of tourist’s interest or service or accessibility of resources there. These reviews are abstract information which speaks about tourists' overall experiences, sentiments or examination with respect to the place or service or accessibility of resources. Sadly some of these provided reviews become superfluous. They do not exactly tell the user if the place is actually good or bad or average. They mostly speak of their own experience in details. This proposed sentiment classification done on aspects words has proved to be promising in crossing out such noise. At the point when the entire information about the places is introduced in the correct manner, broken down into aspects and then classified by efficient classification algorithms, it can derive meaningful information that comes handy to users for arriving at important decisions while planning a trip. Nonetheless, this is comparatively a newer area of research where it has been done on automatic aspect identification, and identification of implicit, infrequent and co-referential aspects, lowering chances of misclassifications. Here we propose a framework that employs Naive Bayes classification algorithm to classify sentiments and opinions in surveys with high exactness compared to other algorithms used before. The system has been actualized as a web application that assists sightseers with finding the best verifiable spots of tourist interest, by finding reviews individually listed wholly and the allover sentiment exuded by each of them. Execution has been assessed by conducting tests on user provided dataset.

Pages: 138 - 142