Beyond Stars: Bridging the Gap Between Ratings and Review Sentiment with LLM

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20953v1
• Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:39:12 GMT
• Title: Beyond Stars: Bridging the Gap Between Ratings and Review Sentiment with LLM
• Authors: Najla Zuhir, Amna Mohammad Salim, Parvathy Premkumar, Moshiur Farazi,
• Abstract summary: We present an advanced approach to mobile app review analysis aimed at addressing limitations inherent in traditional star-rating systems.<n>We propose a modular framework leveraging large language models (LLMs) enhanced by structured prompting techniques.<n>Our method quantifies discrepancies between numerical ratings and textual sentiment, extracts detailed, feature-level insights, and supports interactive exploration of reviews.
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• Abstract: We present an advanced approach to mobile app review analysis aimed at addressing limitations inherent in traditional star-rating systems. Star ratings, although intuitive and popular among users, often fail to capture the nuanced feedback present in detailed review texts. Traditional NLP techniques -- such as lexicon-based methods and classical machine learning classifiers -- struggle to interpret contextual nuances, domain-specific terminology, and subtle linguistic features like sarcasm. To overcome these limitations, we propose a modular framework leveraging large language models (LLMs) enhanced by structured prompting techniques. Our method quantifies discrepancies between numerical ratings and textual sentiment, extracts detailed, feature-level insights, and supports interactive exploration of reviews through retrieval-augmented conversational question answering (RAG-QA). Comprehensive experiments conducted on three diverse datasets (AWARE, Google Play, and Spotify) demonstrate that our LLM-driven approach significantly surpasses baseline methods, yielding improved accuracy, robustness, and actionable insights in challenging and context-rich review scenarios.

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