Investigating the Impact of Discourse Relations on Review Helpfulness

Dependencies

• python3.6
• make
• virtualenv

Building

To build the complete project, execute:

make

To delete all files that are normally created by building the program, except distribution files, execute:

make clean

To delete all files that are normally created by building the program, including distribution files, execute:

make dist-clean

Dependencies (including versions) are defined in:

requirements.txt
test-requirements.txt

Obtaining Data

The data used for this experiment contains:

• a development dataset of 2,000 reviews
• a cross-validation dataset of 18,000 reviews
• the explicitly expressed discourse-relation types for the complete dataset

Download the data from Google Drive and extract it in the top-level directory of this project.

Testing

To run all tests, execute:

make test