A unified workflow strategy for analysing large-scale TripAdvisor reviews with BOW model

Bektaş, Jale

Nowadays, firms need to transform customer online reviews data properly into information to achieve goals such as having a competitive edge and improving the quality of service. This paper presents a unified workflow to solve the problems of analysing large-scale data with 710,450 reviews for 1,134 hotels by using text mining methods among the different touristic regions of Turkey. Firstly, a star schema dimensional data mart is built that includes one fact table and two dimensional tables. Then, a series of text mining processes which includes data cleaning, tokenisation, and analysis are applied. Text mining is implemented through standard BOW and the extended BON model. The results show significant findings through this workflow. We propose to build a dimensional model dataset before pe...