Marco Passon


2018

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Predicting the Usefulness of Amazon Reviews Using Off-The-Shelf Argumentation Mining
Marco Passon | Marco Lippi | Giuseppe Serra | Carlo Tasso
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Argument Mining

Internet users generate content at unprecedented rates. Building intelligent systems capable of discriminating useful content within this ocean of information is thus becoming a urgent need. In this paper, we aim to predict the usefulness of Amazon reviews, and to do this we exploit features coming from an off-the-shelf argumentation mining system. We argue that the usefulness of a review, in fact, is strictly related to its argumentative content, whereas the use of an already trained system avoids the costly need of relabeling a novel dataset. Results obtained on a large publicly available corpus support this hypothesis.