The latent learning model to derive semantic relations of words from unstructured text data in social media

Abstract

Unstructured text data is very important in many applications because it reflects the thought of the people who create this data. However, it is difficult to realize the latent information as it was hidden on the unstructured text data. This paper proposes a latent learning method to construct the lexical structure to constitute the relations between the latent meaning and words. The established lexical structure derived the useful information from unstructured text data and this information and this information can be used for various application. This paper describes how to predict a rating from user-written reviews which is one of unstructured text data. And it also provides visualization information of the semantic lexical structures as the result of analysis. As a result, the proposed method easily quantifies the semantic relations of words and it shows good performance on prediction of ratings from unstructured text data. The proposed method can contribute to analyzing the unstructured text data in various perspectives on latent meaning of words.