A Synthetic Review Dataset

This package provides a method to load a synthetic review dataset, and a script to evaluate mining algorithms with the dataset.

The synthetic review dataset has been introduced in the paper [1] published in the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications.

Installation

Use pip to install this package.

pip install --upgrade rgmining-synthetic-dataset

Usage

This package provides load method which takes a graph object and adds reviewers, products and reviews to the graph. To use this dataset, the graph must implement the graph interface.

# `graph` is an instance of a graph class.
import synthetic
synthetic.load(graph)

API Reference

• synthetic package
  • Submodules
  • synthetic.loader module

Scripts

• synthetic-evaluation command

License

This software is released under The GNU General Public License Version 3, see COPYING for more detail.

References

[1]

Kazuki Tawaramoto, Junpei Kawamoto, Yasuhito Asano, and Masatoshi Yoshikawa, “ A Bipartite Graph Model and Mutually Reinforcing Analysis for Review Sites,” Proc. of the 22nd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2011), pp.341-348, Toulouse, France, August 31, 2011.