Very quaffable and great fun: Applying NLP to wine reviews

WineGraph: A Graph Representation For Food-Wine Pairing

We present WineGraph, an extended version of FlavorGraph, a heterogeneous graph incorporating wine data into its structure. This integration enables food-wine pairing based on taste and sommelier-defined rules. Leveragin…

Do LLMs Understand Wine Descriptors Across Cultures? A Benchmark for Cultural Adaptations of Wine Reviews

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have opened the door to culture-aware language tasks. We introduce the novel problem of adapting wine reviews across Chinese and English, which goes beyond literal translat…

Grapevine: A Wine Prediction Algorithm Using Multi-dimensional Clustering Methods

We present a method for a wine recommendation system that employs multidimensional clustering and unsupervised learning methods. Our algorithm first performs clustering on a large corpus of wine reviews. It then uses the…

Discovering the Language of Wine Reviews: A Text Mining Account

From Amateurs to Connoisseurs: Modeling the Evolution of User Expertise through Online Reviews

Recommending products to consumers means not only understanding their tastes, but also understanding their level of experience. For example, it would be a mistake to recommend the iconic film Seven Samurai simply because…