IEEE Access (Jan 2023)

Opinion Mining from Online Travel Reviews: An Exploratory Investigation on Pakistan Major Online Travel Services Using Natural Language Processing

  • Bushra Kanwal,
  • Saif Ur Rehman,
  • Azhar Imran,
  • Rana Saud Shaukat,
  • Jianqiang Li,
  • Abdulkareem Alzahrani,
  • Ans D. Alghamdi,
  • Fawaz Khaled Alarfaj

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3260114
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11
pp. 29934 – 29945

Abstract

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Online tourism evaluations are a valuable origin of data for traveler organizations, defining as they could be excellently recognized critically prompting traveler opinion-designing using opinion mining. As technology advanced, online review forums of any organization become an attractive source of communication with them, where people can share their views in the form of comments. The main determination of this research article is to recognize normal topics and connect them to contrasts in web-based travel reviews. Online millions of reviews, got from two significant web-based travel organizations (Uber, and Careem) in Pakistan, and a semantic affiliation examination was utilized to extract thematic words and construct a semantic affiliation organization. In the Python programming language, we use natural language processing (NLP), which includes data cleansing and tokenization. The results of network visualization are able to evidently recognize main topics and thematic words with social network associations. The proposed logical system extends our grip on the strategic complications and gives new points of view on the best way to dig popular assessments to assist vacationers, inns, and travel industry organizations.

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