Measurement and Analysis of the Reviews in Airbnb

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A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa

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2018

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en

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9

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Proceedings of 2018 IFIP Networking Conference, pp. 82-90

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Airbnb, a recently emerged online lodging service that allows house and apartment dwellers to lease out their premises to short-term renters like tourists, is reconstructing the value chain of the traditional hotel industry. It works as a platform that connects hosts and travelers and facilities their interaction and exchange. Studying this service could shed light on understanding the emerging sharing economy from a user centric perspective. In this work, we collect the profiles of 43.8 million Airbnb users, and analyze the reviews they published online. We model the interactions between Airbnb users using a review graph, and study their mobility patterns by investigating their reviews. To the best of our knowledge, our work is the first measurement study of massive Airbnb users on a global scale, and it provides insights of their activities in both cyberspace and the physical world.

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Airbnb, review analysis

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Zhou, Q, Chen, Y, Ma, C, Li, F, Xiao, Y, Wang, X & Fu, X 2018, Measurement and Analysis of the Reviews in Airbnb . in Proceedings of 2018 IFIP Networking Conference . International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), pp. 82-90, IFIP Networking, Zurich, Switzerland, 14/05/2018 .