SentimentLens: Reconciling Sentiment and Ratings via Dual-Modality in the Hospitality Sector
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| author | Jayakody, Dineth Thenahandi, Pasindu Jayarathna, Sampath |
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| contents | Online travel platforms generate vast volumes of user-generated hotel reviews, offering rich opportunities to understand traveler experiences at scale. However, transforming unstructured textual feedback into structured, actionable insights remains a challenging task. This paper presents SentimentLens, a scalable analysis system based on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis that performs knowledge extraction from unstructured hotel reviews and organizes them into interpretable service categories. SentimentLens integrates aspect term extraction, aspect sentiment classification, semantic category assignment, and multi-level analytical modules to support region-level, hotel-level, and category-level evaluation. The system is designed to operate across different geographic contexts and hospitality settings. To demonstrate its practical utility, we apply SentimentLens to a large real-world dataset of over 10,000 publicly available hotel reviews. Through extensive analysis, the framework reveals how traveler sentiment varies across regions, service categories, and hotel archetypes. We further implement a cross-modal reconciliation of textual sentiment and numerical ratings to identify latent operational conflicts, structural inconsistencies in service quality, and high-impact improvement opportunities using importance--performance and entropy-based analyses. The results show that SentimentLens effectively transforms large-scale unstructured reviews into actionable intelligence, supporting data-driven decision-making for hospitality management and tourism policy. While demonstrated using a national case study, the proposed system is generalizable to other destinations and review-driven service domains. |
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| spellingShingle | SentimentLens: Reconciling Sentiment and Ratings via Dual-Modality in the Hospitality Sector Jayakody, Dineth Thenahandi, Pasindu Jayarathna, Sampath Information Retrieval Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Machine Learning Online travel platforms generate vast volumes of user-generated hotel reviews, offering rich opportunities to understand traveler experiences at scale. However, transforming unstructured textual feedback into structured, actionable insights remains a challenging task. This paper presents SentimentLens, a scalable analysis system based on Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis that performs knowledge extraction from unstructured hotel reviews and organizes them into interpretable service categories. SentimentLens integrates aspect term extraction, aspect sentiment classification, semantic category assignment, and multi-level analytical modules to support region-level, hotel-level, and category-level evaluation. The system is designed to operate across different geographic contexts and hospitality settings. To demonstrate its practical utility, we apply SentimentLens to a large real-world dataset of over 10,000 publicly available hotel reviews. Through extensive analysis, the framework reveals how traveler sentiment varies across regions, service categories, and hotel archetypes. We further implement a cross-modal reconciliation of textual sentiment and numerical ratings to identify latent operational conflicts, structural inconsistencies in service quality, and high-impact improvement opportunities using importance--performance and entropy-based analyses. The results show that SentimentLens effectively transforms large-scale unstructured reviews into actionable intelligence, supporting data-driven decision-making for hospitality management and tourism policy. While demonstrated using a national case study, the proposed system is generalizable to other destinations and review-driven service domains. |
| title | SentimentLens: Reconciling Sentiment and Ratings via Dual-Modality in the Hospitality Sector |
| topic | Information Retrieval Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00084 |