지능정보연구 (Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems)

  • 제22권1호
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  • Pages.63-82
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  • 2016
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  • 2288-4866(pISSN)
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  • 2288-4882(eISSN)
한국지능정보시스템학회 (Korea Intelligent Information System Society)
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전문가 제품 후기가 소비자 제품 평가에 미치는 영향: 텍스트마이닝 분석을 중심으로

The Effect of Expert Reviews on Consumer Product Evaluations: A Text Mining Approach

  • 강태영 (KAIST 경영대학) ;
  • 박도형 (국민대학교 경영대학 경영정보학부)
  • Kang, Taeyoung (KAIST Business School) ;
  • Park, Do-Hyung (Department of Management Information Systems, School of Business Administration, Kookmin University)
  • 투고 : 2016.02.04
  • 심사 : 2016.02.22
  • 발행 : 2016.03.31
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최근 정보기술의 발달로 인해 소비자들은 온라인상에서 많은 정보를 쉽고 빠르게 획득할 수 있다. 소비자가 제품 구매시에는 소비자들이나 전문가들이 작성한 제품 후기 정보를 주로 탐색한다. 기존의 연구들이 소비자들이 창출한 제품 후기 중심으로 주로 진행되어 왔기 때문에, 전문가 제품 후기의 영향력에 대해서는 상대적으로 소수의 연구들만 존재하고 있다. 본 연구는 전문가가 생성하는 제품 후기에 초점을 맞추어, 방대한 실제 비정형데이터인 전문가의 후기를 어떻게 언어학적인 차원과 심리학적인 차원으로 나눌 수 있는지의 방법론을 제안하며, 실제 전문가 제품 후기를 사용하여 의미 있는 다섯 가지 차원의 새로운 변수들을 도출하였다. 그 결과 소비자들이 전문가 후기에서 반응하고 있는 언어적 특성은 제품에 대한 깊이 있는 정보의 양이나 충분한 설명을 나타내는 변수인 Review Depth, 그리고 전문가가 기술하는 방식이 제품에 대한 확신이 없는 듯한 말투를 나타내는 변수인 Lack of Assurance는 소비자의 전반적인 제품평가에 유의한 상관관계가 있는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 또한, 제품에 대한 칭찬이나 긍정적인 면을 서술하는 방식인 Positive Polarity가 소비자의 제품 평가에 영향을 미치지 않았지만, 전문가가 하는 제품에 대한 비관적인 평가인 Negative Polarity는 소비자들의 평가와 유의한 음의 상관관계가 있었다는 점이다. 전문가가 스토리텔링 관점에서 자주 사용하는 Social Orientation 특성은 유의한 관계를 미치지 못함이 밝혀졌다. 본 연구는 새로운 방법론을 제안하고 이를 실제로 활용한 결과를 보여준다는 차원에서 이론적이고 실무적인 공헌을 가진다.

Individuals gather information online to resolve problems in their daily lives and make various decisions about the purchase of products or services. With the revolutionary development of information technology, Web 2.0 has allowed more people to easily generate and use online reviews such that the volume of information is rapidly increasing, and the usefulness and significance of analyzing the unstructured data have also increased. This paper presents an analysis on the lexical features of expert product reviews to determine their influence on consumers' purchasing decisions. The focus was on how unstructured data can be organized and used in diverse contexts through text mining. In addition, diverse lexical features of expert reviews of contents provided by a third-party review site were extracted and defined. Expert reviews are defined as evaluations by people who have expert knowledge about specific products or services in newspapers or magazines; this type of review is also called a critic review. Consumers who purchased products before the widespread use of the Internet were able to access expert reviews through newspapers or magazines; thus, they were not able to access many of them. Recently, however, major media also now provide online services so that people can more easily and affordably access expert reviews compared to the past. The reason why diverse reviews from experts in several fields are important is that there is an information asymmetry where some information is not shared among consumers and sellers. The information asymmetry can be resolved with information provided by third parties with expertise to consumers. Then, consumers can read expert reviews and make purchasing decisions by considering the abundant information on products or services. Therefore, expert reviews play an important role in consumers' purchasing decisions and the performance of companies across diverse industries. If the influence of qualitative data such as reviews or assessment after the purchase of products can be separately identified from the quantitative data resources, such as the actual quality of products or price, it is possible to identify which aspects of product reviews hamper or promote product sales. Previous studies have focused on the characteristics of the experts themselves, such as the expertise and credibility of sources regarding expert reviews; however, these studies did not suggest the influence of the linguistic features of experts' product reviews on consumers' overall evaluation. However, this study focused on experts' recommendations and evaluations to reveal the lexical features of expert reviews and whether such features influence consumers' overall evaluations and purchasing decisions. Real expert product reviews were analyzed based on the suggested methodology, and five lexical features of expert reviews were ultimately determined. Specifically, the "review depth" (i.e., degree of detail of the expert's product analysis), and "lack of assurance" (i.e., degree of confidence that the expert has in the evaluation) have statistically significant effects on consumers' product evaluations. In contrast, the "positive polarity" (i.e., the degree of positivity of an expert's evaluations) has an insignificant effect, while the "negative polarity" (i.e., the degree of negativity of an expert's evaluations) has a significant negative effect on consumers' product evaluations. Finally, the "social orientation" (i.e., the degree of how many social expressions experts include in their reviews) does not have a significant effect on consumers' product evaluations. In summary, the lexical properties of the product reviews were defined according to each relevant factor. Then, the influence of each linguistic factor of expert reviews on the consumers' final evaluations was tested. In addition, a test was performed on whether each linguistic factor influencing consumers' product evaluations differs depending on the lexical features. The results of these analyses should provide guidelines on how individuals process massive volumes of unstructured data depending on lexical features in various contexts and how companies can use this mechanism from their perspective. This paper provides several theoretical and practical contributions, such as the proposal of a new methodology and its application to real data.

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