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Journal of Wine Economics Volume 17 | 2022 | No. 1
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Wine Review Descriptors as Quality Predictors: Evidence from Language Processing Techniques

Wine Review Descriptors as Quality Predictors: Evidence from Language Processing Techniques

Chenyu Yang, Jackson Barth, Duwani Katumullage and Jing Cao
JEL Clasification: C45, C88, D83
Pages: 64-80
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Abstract

There is an ongoing debate on whether wine reviews provide meaningful information on wine properties and quality. However, few studies have been conducted aiming directly at comparing the utility of wine reviews and numeric measurements in wine data analysis. Based on data from close to 300,000 wines reviewed by Wine Spectator, we use logistic regression models to investigate whether wine reviews are useful in predicting a wine’s quality classification. We group our sample into one of two binary quality brackets, wines with a critical rating of 90 or above and the other group with ratings of 89 or below. This binary outcome constitutes our dependent variable. The explanatory vari- ables include different combinations of numerical covariates such as the price and age of wines and numerical representations of text reviews. By comparing the explanatory accuracy of the models, our results suggest that wine review descriptors are more accurate in predicting binary wine quality classifications than are various numerical covariates— including the wine’s price. In the study, we include three different feature extraction methods in text analysis: latent Dirichlet allocation, term frequency-inverse document frequency, and Doc2Vec text embedding. We find that Doc2Vec is the best performing feature extraction method that produces the highest classification accuracy due to its capability of using contextual information from text documents.

Keywords: classification, logistic regression, text analysis, wine review.

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