Pekar, Viktor and Binner, Jane (2017). Forecasting Consumer Spending from Purchase Intentions Expressed on Social Media. IN: Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis. Copenhagen, Denmark: Association for Computational Linguistics.
Abstract
Consumer spending is a vital macroeconomic indicator. In this paper we present a novel method for predicting future consumer spending from social media data. In contrast to previous work that largely relied on sentiment analysis, the proposed method models consumer spending from purchase intentions found on social media. Our experiments with time series analysis models and machine-learning regression models reveal utility of this data for making short-term forecasts of consumer spending: for three- and seven-day horizons, prediction variables derived from social media help to improve forecast accuracy by 11% to 18% for all the three models, in comparison to models that used only autoregressive predictors.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-52 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Operations & Information Management |
Additional Information: | © 2017 The Association for Computational Linguistics. Materials published in or after 2016 are licensed on a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. |
Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2024 10:12 |
Date Deposited: | 28 Mar 2019 08:37 |
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PURE Output Type: | Conference contribution |
Published Date: | 2017-09-08 |
Accepted Date: | 2017-01-01 |
Authors: |
Pekar, Viktor
(![]() Binner, Jane |