• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.67-90
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• 2008

Prior to making choices among online products and services, consumers often search online product reviews written by other consumers. Online product reviews have great influences on consumer behavior because they are believed to be more reliable than information provided by sellers. However, ever-increasing lists of product reviews make it difficult for consumers to find the right information efficiently. A customized search mechanism is a method to provide personalized information which fits the user's requirements. This study examines effects of a customized search mechanism and perceived similarity between consumers and product reviewers on consumer behaviors. More specifically, we address the following research questions: (1) Can a customized search mechanism increase perceived similarity between product review authors and readers? (2) Are product reviews perceived as more credible when product reviews were written by the authors perceived similar to them? (3) Does credibility of product reviews have a positive impact on acceptance of product reviews? (4) Does acceptance of product reviews have an influence on purchase intention of the readers? To examine these research questions, a lab experiment with a between-subject factor (whether a customized search mechanism is provided or not) design was employed. In order to enhance mundane realism and increase generalizability of the findings, the experiment sites were built based on a real online store, cherrya.com (http://www.cherrya.com/). Sixty participants were drawn from a pool that consisted of undergraduate and graduate students in a large university. Participation was voluntary; all the participants received 5,000 won to encourage their motivation and involvement in the experiment tasks. In addition, 15 participants, who selected by a random draw, received 30,000 won to actually purchase the product that he or she decided to buy during the experiment. Of the 60 participants, 25 were male and 35 were female. In examining the homogeneity between the two groups, the results of t-tests revealed no significant difference in gender, age, academic years, online shopping experience, and Internet usage. To test our research model, we completed tests of the measurement models and the structural models using PLS Graph version 3.00. The analysis confirmed individual item reliability, internal consistency, and discriminant validity of measurements. The results show that participants feel more credible when product reviews were written by the authors perceived similar to them, credibility of product reviews have a positive impact on acceptance of product reviews, and acceptance of product reviews have an influence on purchase intention of the readers. However, a customized search mechanism did not increase perceived similarity between product review authors and readers. The results imply that there is an urgent need to develop a better customized search tool in order to increase perceived similarity between product review authors and readers.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.53-72
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• 2018

This empirical study explored characteristics that affect the usefulness of online reviews, in the China e-commerce platform, and implemented multiple regressions to find factors that significantly influence on product sales, ultimately. Till now, prior studies have continuously revealed what factor affects usefulness of online review or product sales, only in respective terms. The point of our study is that we built two-level regression models, thereby being able to comprehensively analyze these two different targets. Before plunging into running regressions, we carefully collected 192,764 online review data for 200 products extracted from the Jingdong, the second biggest e-commerce platform in China. Also, we gathered "review sentimental scores" variable from each review and used that one as a core variable in our regression model, thus we were able to implement both quantitative and qualitative research. The evidences from the two-level regression models showed that the extent to which a product is experience good positively affects both usefulness of a review and product sales, again the usefulness of a review contributes to product sales in sequence. Also, the property of experience good has interaction effect on both for two-level regression models. Our main findings highlight the importance of role of online review to business performance of e-commerce firms.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제16B권6호
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• pp.497-502
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 상품평의 효율적인 분석을 위한 평가 항목 추출 시스템을 제안한다. 시스템은 크게 상품평 수집-보정과 평가 항목 추출의 두 단계로 구성된다. 상품평 수집-보정에서는 인터넷 쇼핑몰에서 상품평을 수집하고 상품평 특유의 구어체 표현과 맞춤법 오류 등을 처리한다. 평가 항목 추출에서는 스커트 상품 카테고리의 경우 ‘사이즈', ‘스타일'과 같이 상품을 평가하는 기준이 되는 항목을 상품평과 인터넷 상의 웹 문서를 활용하여 자동으로 추출한다. 상품평에 나타나는 명사들을 평가 항목 후보로 설정하고, 각 후보 명사의 상품평에서의 어휘 통계인 내부연관도와, 후보 명사와 상품 카테고리명의 웹 문서에서의 공기 빈도에 기반하여 계산된 외부연관도를 결합하여 상품과 평가 항목 후보의 연관도를 계산한다. 본 논문의 평가 항목 추출 방식은 평균 재현율 90%를 보여 기존 연구보다 우수한 결과를 보였다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.838-855
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• 2019

Online product reviews are a vital source for companies in that they contain consumers' opinions of products. The earlier methods of opinion mining, which involve drawing semantic information from text, have been mostly applied in one dimension. This is not sufficient in itself to elicit reviewers' comprehensive views on products. In this paper, we propose a novel approach in opinion mining by projecting online consumers' reviews in a multidimensional framework to improve review interpretation of products. First of all, we set up a new framework consisting of six dimensions based on a marketing management theory. To calculate the distances of review sentences and each dimension, we embed words in reviews utilizing Google's pre-trained word2vector model. We classified each sentence of the reviews into the respective dimensions of our new framework. After the classification, we measured the sentiment degrees for each sentence. The results were plotted using a radar graph in which the axes are the dimensions of the framework. We tested the strategy on Amazon product reviews of the iPhone and Galaxy smartphone series with a total of around 21,000 sentences. The results showed that the radar graphs visually reflected several issues associated with the products. The proposed method is not for specific product categories. It can be generally applied for opinion mining on reviews of any product category.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.19-33
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• 2009

급속한 전자상거래의 발전으로 인하여 온라인상으로 상품을 구매하고 그에 대한 평가를 작성하는 것이 일반적인 구매 패턴이 되었다. 기존 구매자들의 상품평들은 다른 잠재적인 소비자들의 상품 구입을 이끌어내는데 큰 동기가 된다. 사용자가 작성한 상품평은 하나의 상품에 대해 실제 사용자의 좋고 나쁨에 대한 감정을 표현한 결과로, 개개인에 따라 긍정 또는 부정적인 의견으로 나눠진다. 상품평 중에서 소비자가 원하는 정보를 얻기 위해서는 이들을 일일이 수작업으로 확인해야하지만, 온라인 쇼핑몰에 상품평이 대용량으로 축적된 환경에서 이러한 작업은 비효율적일 수밖에 없다. 본 논문에서는 오피니언 마이닝 기술을 이용하여 제품 사용자의 주관적 의견을 자동으로 분류할 수 있는 감성분석 알고리즘을 제시한다. 본 논문에서 제시하는 알고리즘은 온라인 쇼핑몰에 등록된 개별 상품평을 대상으로 긍정 및 부정 의견으로 판단하여 요약된 결과를 제공하는 기능을 한다. 본 논문에서는 또한 제안된 알고리즘을 바탕으로 개발된 상품평 자동분석 시스템을 소개하고, 알고리즘의 효율성을 검증하기 위한 실험결과도 제시한다.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.49-62
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• 2022

온라인 상품평 데이터는 제품의 특성에 대한 구체적인 평가를 담고 있으면서도 인터넷상에서 쉽게 수집할 수 있기에 제품의 장단점 및 긍정/부정 척도를 판단하기에 높은 효용 가치를 가진다. 기존의 감성 분석 연구들은 여러 문장으로 구성된 상품평 전체 단위의 감성 평가 방법을 제안하였다. 제품의 여러 속성별로 감성 평가 결과를 얻을 수 있으면 후속 제품 개발 과정에 유효한 입력이 될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 제품의 속성 단위의 감성 분석을 하기 위해 상품평의 문장 단위로부터 제품 속성을 추출하여 감성 평가를 수행하는 방법을 제안한다. 먼저 양방향 LSTM과 조건부 무작위장(CRF)을 활용한 문장분석 모델을 통해 제품 속성과 감성어를 추출한다. 추출된 제품 속성별 감성 평가 결과는 본 논문에서 제안하는 감성 평가 규칙을 활용하여 계산된다. 제품 속성별 감성평가 결과는 품질 전개 기법에 적용되어 후속 제품 개발과정에 반영된다. 제안하는 방법론은 헤어드라이기 제품 사례를 통해 적정성을 보여준다.

• 한국신뢰성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신뢰성학회 2004년도 정기학술대회
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• pp.262-267
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• 2004

In designing and evaluating a new product, the company needs to give thought to the entire spectrum of produceability, usability, and ultimate reliability, as well as safety of users. For each design review(DR) stage, a formal, systematic, documented review and evaluation of a product design is conducted to assure that the product is safe and reliable, that costs and materials have been optimized, and that the design complies with its specifications and requirements. This paper presents how to improve development process for product's safety and reliability. The process requires gathering the appropriate information, determining the limits of the product, estimating risk associated with the task-hazard combinations, and reducing risk according to a prioritized procedure.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.85-96
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• 2005

The purpose of the research is to discuss the product safety procedures for the food industry The producer and supplier of the products should satisfy the increasing consumer safety needs. To develop and produce safe products, the food industry must rigorously perform potential hazard findings and very thorough risk analysis to detect even the very minute potential danger. The ultimate product liability rests with the consumer safety and the manufacturer's capability which competes in the market places. This is especially important in the food industry. However, small to medium sized food producing companies are facing challenges in this area due to their overall capabilities. Therefore this research presents safety procedures which are relatively simple to implement.

• 패션비즈니스
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.69-84
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to analyze examples of online fashion product planning of domestic fashion brands, to grasp the characteristics and step-by-step problems in product planning, and to suggest product planning methods. This study consists of a literature study and a case study. The results of th study are as follows. First, in the information analysis and product planning, product planning according to analysis and targeting of online consumers should be conducted separately from offline, and the proportion of online-only products should be expanded. Second, in the design planning and product development stages, it should be possible to secure the quantity through the pre-planning of fabrics, a to acquire the novelty of the material through the preemption of good fabrics and the pre-planning of colors to secure competitive design. Third, in the convention, a systematic review process involving company members and customer review teams should be conducted to ensure product quality and sales-ability Fourth, in the production stage, the production period must be to reduce cost. Fifth, differentiated services according to the characteristics of their products for each brand in the promotion and sales stages. Based on this analysis, a desirable approach online product planning should first run promotion phase, increasing pre-planning for the product, and organizing specialize work and manpower issues.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제33권5호
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• pp.720-730
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• 2011

Opinion mining involves the analysis of customer opinions using product reviews and provides meaningful information including the polarity of the opinions. In opinion mining, feature extraction is important since the customers do not normally express their product opinions holistically but separately according to its individual features. However, previous research on feature-based opinion mining has not had good results due to drawbacks, such as selecting a feature considering only syntactical grammar information or treating features with similar meanings as different. To solve these problems, this paper proposes an enhanced feature extraction and refinement method called FEROM that effectively extracts correct features from review data by exploiting both grammatical properties and semantic characteristics of feature words and refines the features by recognizing and merging similar ones. A series of experiments performed on actual online review data demonstrated that FEROM is highly effective at extracting and refining features for analyzing customer review data and eventually contributes to accurate and functional opinion mining.