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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2013, Vol. ›› Issue (2): 185-192.

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Study on the Method of Identifying Opinion Leaders for Online Word-of-mouth Communication

CAI Shu-qin1, MA Yu-tao1, WANG Rui2   

  1. 1. School of Management, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China;
    2. School of Management, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China
  • Received:2011-02-26 Revised:2012-05-17 Online:2013-04-30 Published:2013-04-25

Abstract: The deepening adoption of Web2.0 technology makes more and more users publish reviews on the web about products, services, brands or business, and the online word-of-mouth greatly influences customers’ purchasing decisions and corporate reputations. Therefore, it makes sence for enterprises to identify the opinion leaders of online word-of-mouth communication. In this study, combining RFM model and automatically measuring method of sentiment words, a RFMS model is proposed to measure the influence of online word-of-mouth publisher, identify opinion leaders by applying artificial neural network, and assess the validity of identifying results based on degree centrality. The online reviews of dianping.com are analyzed, and based on those reviews the proposed method is verified. Results show that the proposed method in this paper can accurately identify opinion leaders.

Key words: online word-of-mouth communication, opinion leader, identification method, RFM, sentiment

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