Topic Modeling Tourism
Topic Modeling Tourism
Abstract—Mobile application is one of the most important Reviews within the mobile application marketplace
information platforms for international tourists. Millions of usually reflect the user's positive and negative emotions [5].
tourists use mobile applications to find information and make For example, bug reports may contain negative sentiments,
transactions. Two popular Online Travel Agent (OTA) mobile while user experience reviews may be combined with
applications for travel-related activities providers are positive sentiments [6]. Sentiment Analysis as a method in
Traveloka and Tiket.com. These applications certainly must Text Mining technique can be used to classify unlabeled data
meet travelers’ needs to achieve satisfaction. Such satisfaction based on learning classification machine learning model
related to application Mobile Application Service Quality concept using labelled training data. A trained sentiment
(MappSql) dimensions can be traced from thousands of their
analysis model will predict large number of unlabeled
comments on the Google Play Store. From a set of reviews,
reviews in terms of positive and negative polarities
information about the perception of mobile application quality
can be obtained. Knowledge on user perceptions is very useful
automatically and quickly. This method can be applied in
for company’s consideration in creating effective business and exploring application users’ emotions so that developers can
app features to increase users’ satisfaction. We propose Text find out whether their applications invite more positive or
Mining models to bring up hidden information regarding negative sentiments.
users’ verdict. The selected text analysis methods for this We also select Topic Modelling method to reveal outline
research are Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling. We find of users’ reviews topics. We had focused our research on two
that positive or negative sentiments towards MappSql
of the most popular OTA providers in Indonesia which were
dimensions of online travel agent applications qualities can be
revealed using sentiment analysis method. Topic Modeling
Traveloka and Tiket.com as reported by DailySocial.id
method is used to bring up groups of important words of topics (2018). Traveloka and Tiket.com present the trending OTA
related to each mobile application service quality dimensions. e-commerce services. Results from both methods will serve
as the basis of quality perceived comparison analysis
Keywords—Mobile Application Quality, Text Mining, User purposes.
Satisfaction. We consider topics discovery towards MappSql since it
provides a scale and dimensions to assess mobile application
I. INTRODUCTION service quality. MappSql is tailored for use in measuring
Indonesia has a positive growth of internet users and mobile application service quality and is inferred from e-
tourism trends every year. Online Travel Agent (OTA) is one Service quality dimensions used in state-of-the-art
of the growing businesses in tourism industry. Over the past researches. To the best of our knowledge, our research is the
few years, tourism and hospitality industry companies have first work that incorporates sentiment analysis and topics
been taking part and developing their competitiveness in the modelling towards MappSql for a more comprehensive and
applications market for e-commerce and online transactions unified measurement purpose.
activities [1]. OTA is a manifestation of the tourism business Using appropriate data analytics tools, one can explore
development using e-commerce technologies. In accessing customer feedbacks in almost real-time manner. This will
OTA services, people prefer to use a mobile application benefit OTA mobile applications developers in better tuning
compared to other platforms [2] which makes it very crucial features of their respective products and services. In business
for companies to improve as part of their service management context, quality of general decision making will
development. be improved correspondingly. Any data analytics method
Along with the development of technology, mobile requires a reliable source of data. Since Google Play Store
application becomes an important role in accessing stores huge amount of users’ bug reports, feature requests,
information. This is also true in term of users’ reviews. and praises, it has becoming an important data source for
Based on a study, online users’ reviews have a significant mobile application engineering decisions [4].
influence on consumer product sales [3], so companies need
to pay attention in gaining valuable insights. Google Play II. LITERATURE REVIEW
Store holds very large number of customers’ reviews data.
Social media allows customers to share opinions and
The number is growing fast. There are challenges to filter out
provide feedback about their usage experiences of many
low-quality reviews which may include unreasonable
information, uncorrelated information to the product or a products and online services. Due to advances in database
service, spam messages, or redundant information. With management techniques, social media channels business
hundreds or thousands of new reviews every day, application models, and mobile devices technologies, a lot of customer-
developers and analysts will find it harder to filter and related information is increasingly accumulating in social
process useful information from these reviews [4]. media companies. The use of social media channels
(2)
Data Cleaning
Accuracy measures the correctness of the classification
models in predicting labels. On the other part, precision
Data Preprocessing
shows the ratio of correct prediction and total positive or
negative predictions. Recall shows the ability of the model to
recognize each members of positive or negative classes
Data Training
among a set of unlabelled data [21].