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Schwaiger, Josef Michael ; Lang, Markus ; Johannsen, Florian ; Leist, Susanne

"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 typeConference or workshop item (Paper)
ISBN978-989-207655
Title of BookProceedings of the 25th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Guimarães, Portugal, June 5-10, 2017
PublisherAIS Electronic Library (AISeL)
Page Rangepp. 2034-2050
DateJune 2017
Date of publication12 Jul 2017 07:45
Additional Information (public)Research Papers
InstitutionsBusiness, 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)
KeywordsSocial Media, Classification, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise
Dewey Decimal Classification000 Computer science, information & general works > 004 Computer science
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-358920
Item ID35892

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