eprintid: 10054622 rev_number: 26 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/05/46/22 datestamp: 2018-08-23 11:37:07 lastmod: 2020-02-12 17:29:02 status_changed: 2019-01-16 14:16:04 type: proceedings_section metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Kotonya, N creators_name: Cristofaro, PD creators_name: Cristofaro, ED title: Of Wines and Reviews: Measuring and Modeling the Vivino Wine Social Network ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: A01 divisions: B04 divisions: C05 divisions: F48 keywords: Wineries , Predictive models , Twitter , Biological system modeling , Crawlers , Analytical models note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: This paper presents an analysis of social experiences around wine consumption through the lens of Vivino, a social network for wine enthusiasts with over 26 million active users worldwide. We compare users' perceptions of various wine types and regional styles across both New and Old World wines, examining wines across price ranges, vintages, regions, varietals, and blends. We find that ratings provided by Vivino users are not biased by the cost of the wines. Then, we study how wine characteristics, language in wine reviews, and the distribution of wine ratings can be combined to develop prediction and recommendation models. More specifically, we model user behavior to develop three models: (1) a regression model for predicting wine ratings, (2) a classifier for determining user review preferences, and (3) a recommender system for suggesting wines based on history of ratings and reviews. date: 2018-10 date_type: published publisher: IEEE official_url: https://doi.org/10.1109/ASONAM.2018.8508776 oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1577094 doi: 10.1109/ASONAM.2018.8508776 isbn_13: 978-1-5386-6051-5 lyricists_name: De Cristofaro, Emiliano lyricists_id: EDECR21 actors_name: Dewerpe, Marie actors_id: MDDEW97 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public pagerange: 387-392 event_title: 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), 28-31 August 2018, Barcelona, Spain institution: ASONAM 2018 issn: 2473-991X book_title: 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM) citation: Kotonya, N; Cristofaro, PD; Cristofaro, ED; (2018) Of Wines and Reviews: Measuring and Modeling the Vivino Wine Social Network. In: 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM). (pp. pp. 387-392). IEEE Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10054622/1/no_comments.pdf