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Reviews were classified as positive or negative using three sentiment analysis tools. The percentage of positive reviews was used to predict numerical ratings that were then compared with actual ratings.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 All tools classified reviews as positive or negative in a way that correlated positively with numerical ratings. More complex algorithms worked better, yet predicted ratings showed reasonable agreement with actual ratings for most cities. Predictions for hotels were less reliable if based on less than 50-60 percent of available reviews.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Practical implications<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 These results validate that sentiment analysis can be used to transform unstructured qualitative data on user opinion into quantitative ratings. Current tools may be useful for summarizing opinions of user reviews of products and services on web sites that do not require users to post numerical ratings such as traveler forums. This summarizing may be valuable not just to potential users, but also to the service and product providers and offers validation and benchmarking for future improvement of opinion mining and prediction techniques.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p>\u2013 This work assesses the correlation between sentiment analysis of hotels\u2019 reviews and their actual ratings. 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