Authors: Rui Song, Tong Li, Xiangyang Li, Xin Dong, Zhiming Ding
Tags: 2019, conceptual modeling
User profiling is essential for understanding the characteristics of various users, contributing to understanding their requirements better. User reviews by nature are invaluable sources for acquiring user requirements and have drawn increasing attention from both academia and industry, which have not been well explored by traditional user profiling techniques. This paper carries out a systematic mapping study on review-based user profiling. Specifically, 21 out of 1372 papers were carefully selected for investigation under a standardized and systematic procedure. By carrying out in-depth analysis over such papers, we have identified a general process that should be followed to perform review-based user profiling. In addition, we perform multidimensional analysis on each step of the process to review current research progress, identify challenges, and propose potential research directions. The results show that although traditional methods have been continuously improved, they are not effective enough to unleash the full potential of large-scale user reviews, especially the use of heterogeneous data for multi-dimensional user profiling.Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-20618-5_16
