Helpful online product reviews, which includemassive information, have large
impacts on customers? purchasing decisions. In most of e-commerce plat
forms, the helpfulness of reviews are decided by the votes from other
customers. Making full use of these reviews with votes has enormous
commercial value, especially in product recommendation. It drives
researchers to study the technologies about how to evaluate the review
helpfulness automatically. Although Deep Neural Network(DNN), learning from
the historical reviews and labels, computed by the votes, has demonstrated
effective results, it still has suffered insufficient labeled reviews
problem. When the helpfulness of a large number of reviews is unknown for
lack of votes, or some useful latest reviews with less votes are submerged
by the past reviews, the accuracy of current DNN model decreases quickly.
Therefore, we propose an end-to-end deep semi-supervised learning model with
weight map, which makes full use of the unlabeled reviews. The training
process in this model is divided into three stages:obtaining base classifier
by less labeled reviews, iteratively applying weight map strategy on large
unlabeled reviews to obtain pseudo-labeled reviews, training on above
combined reviews to obtain the re-training classifier. Based on this novel
model, we develop an algorithm and conduct a series of experiments, on
Amazon Review Dataset, from the aspects of the baseline neural network
selection and the strategies comparisons, including two labeling and three
weighting strategies. The experimental results demonstrate the
effectiveness of our method on utilizing the unlabeled data. And our
findings show that the model adopted batch labeling strategy and non-linear
weight mapping method has achieved the best performance.