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"What does the customer want to tell us?" - An automated classification approach for social media posts at SMEs.
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Schwaiger, Josef Michael, Lang, Markus, Johannsen, Florian and Leist, Susanne (2017) "What does the customer want to tell us?" - An automated classification approach for social media posts at SMEs. In: 25th European Conference on Informations Systems (ECIS), June 5-10, 2017, Guimaraes/Portugal.DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.35892
Abstract
Social media posts created by customers capture a lot of business relevant information for decision-makers, e.g., current consumer expectations on products and services. For that purpose, the social media posts need to be analyzed thoroughly. In this respect, a topic-related classification facilitates managerial decision-making because business-relevant topics, social media users discuss about, ...
Social media posts created by customers capture a lot of business relevant information for decision-makers, e.g., current consumer expectations on products and services. For that purpose, the social media posts need to be analyzed thoroughly. In this respect, a topic-related classification facilitates managerial decision-making because business-relevant topics, social media users discuss about, immediately become obvious and the need for action can be derived. For instance, it may get obvious that the majority of a company’s negative customer posts refers to a particular product or a specific campaign. However, such a classification of social media posts is particularly challenging for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This is because human resources for a manual examination of posts are missing and an automatic analysis is error-prone due to particularities of customer posts such as the occurrence of regional dialect or branch-specific expressions. We thus develop a tool, which enables the automatized topic-related classification of social media posts and matches the particular requirements of SMEs in southern Germany. Our solution is evaluated by using a data set stemming from three collaborating companies.
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| Item type | Conference or workshop item (Paper) |
| ISBN | 978-989-207655 |
| Title of Book | Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Guimarães, Portugal, June 5-10, 2017 |
| Publisher | AIS Electronic Library (AISeL) |
| Page Range | pp. 2034-2050 |
| Date | June 2017 |
| Date of publication | 12 Jul 2017 07:45 |
| Additional Information (public) | Research Papers |
| Institutions | Business, Economics and Information Systems > Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik > Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik III - Business Engineering (Prof. Dr. Susanne Leist) Informatics and Data Science > Department Information Systems > Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik III - Business Engineering (Prof. Dr. Susanne Leist) |
| Keywords | Social Media, Classification, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise |
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 000 Computer science, information & general works > 004 Computer science |
| Status | Published |
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed |
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Yes |
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-358920 |
| Item ID | 35892 |
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