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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Consumer Reviews"”.
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Online reviews and consumers' willingness to pay: the role of uncertainty
Empirical studies of online reviews have found that valence (average rating) has a consistently positive impact on consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP), but volume does not. Although two studies tried to explain this phenomenon using different perspectives (Wu and Ayala, 2012; Sun, 2012), neither …
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The Influence Of Online Reviews On Saudi Consumers’ Tourism Destination Choices
Online consumer reviews (OCRs) can be key aspects of how tourists choose a travel destination. OCRs are particularly important for experiential purchases such as tourism destinations, because consumers have difficulty assessing the quality of intangible products prior to consumption. OCRs can thus …
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High compression rate text summarization
… This method is used to summarize thousands of consumer reviews by identifying the product properties mentioned by multiple reviewers. The second representation captures discourse properties, modelling the connections between different segments of a document. This discriminatively trained model …
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Tell Me About Your Experience: How Consumer Narratives Persuade
… approach to examine the process through which consumers are persuaded by online consumer reviews, a common form of consumer narrative. A review that reads like a narrative (story) is likely to evoke transportation into that review, which affects persuasion-related outcomes. Across three …
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Consumer-Centric Innovation for Mobile Apps Empowered by Social Media Analytics
… number of social media platforms exist where consumers can exchange comments online about products and services that businesses offer. The existing literature has demonstrated that online user-generated content can significantly influence consumer behavior and increase sales. However, its …
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Online Content Design with Unstructured Data
… design of digital content in three aspects: (1) consumer reviews for e-commerce, (2) online news headlines, and (3) multimedia content. By applying diverse methodologies, this dissertation makes a substantial contribution to the understanding of online word-of-mouth and digital content creation. …
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Ensemble Learning Techniques for Structured and Unstructured Data
… The first research section addresses the consumer demand forecasting and daily capacity management requirements of a nationally recognized alpine ski resort in the state of Utah, in the United States of America. A basic econometric model is developed and three classic predictive models …
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Grab your fork: a netnographic study of a foodie blog and its community.
… who are also internet users. For them, online consumer reviews have become an important information resource, in particular food blogs which provide amateur restaurant reviews (Zhu & Zhang, 2010; Pantalidis, 2010). Those who do read food blogs prefer their reviews to those of supposedly …
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Essays in search for match quality
… thesis consists of three essays on search for reviews. In Chapter 1, I study how homogeneous consumers behave when they are considering to buy a new experience good, such as a pair of shoes, from a monopolist with an observable price. They have costly access to consumer reviews which are …
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Reviews of Applications for Smartphone-Connected Hearing Aids and Implications on Counseling
… to assess the end-user experience is to examine reviews created by consumers on the Google Play Store. The posted comments can help manufacturers better understand concerns or suggestions to improve the experience. By analyzing user experiences, counseling best-practices for hearing aid …
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FACTORS INFLUENCING CONSUMERS' TRUST PERCEPTIONS OF ONLINE PRODUCT REVIEWS: A STUDY OF THE TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY ONLINE PRODUCT REVIEW SYSTEMS
… feedback systems, peer reputation systems, or consumer generated media. Such systems provide a global platform for customers to share their experiences, and also rate service providers. WOM systems are burgeoning on the Internet for products such as music and books (Amazon.com), news …