Improving Restaurant Recommendations on Yelp
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چکیده
Yelp reviews, while useful as a general measure for a given business suffer from a common fate of most review systems; they are not segmented and as such review value of a business for any given individual is heavily diluted by other users with differing preferences. Furthermore, while star ratings are generally useful, there is an abundance of information available in the textual content of the rating itself and the sentiment information available therein.
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