Title
Ranking Entities Using Comparative Relations
Abstract
This paper proposes a method for ranking entities (e.g. products, people, etc.) that uses the comparative sentences described in text such as reviews, blogs, etc. as an indicator of an individual entity's value. A comparative sentence expresses a relation between two entities. The comparative sentence "The quality of A is better than that of B" is expressed by the comparative relation {A,B,quality,better}. Given a query (set of queries), the proposed method automatically finds the competitive entities and extracts the comparative relations among them. From the vast amount of comparative relations so extracted, the proposed method then generates a graph modeling the behavior of a "potential customer" to assess the relative importance of every entity against its competitors. These ranking results help potential customers to know the position of the entity among related entities and decide which one to choose.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1007/978-3-540-85654-2_15
DEXA
Keywords
Field
DocType
comparative relations,competitive entity,ranking result,ranking entity,comparative sentence,ranking entities,comparative relation,potential customer,individual entity,relative importance,related entity
Data mining,Graph,Ranking,Information retrieval,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Sentence,Competitor analysis
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5181
0302-9743
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
11
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takeshi Kurashima131524.21
Katsuji Bessho2152.81
Hiroyuki Toda35814.72
Toshio Uchiyama422127.76
Ryoji Kataoka511915.29