Almuqren, Latifah and Alrayes, Fatma S. and Cristea, Alexandra I. (2021) 'An Empirical Study on Customer Churn Behaviours Prediction Using Arabic Twitter Mining Approach.', Future Internet, 13 (7). p. 175.
Abstract
With the rising growth of the telecommunication industry, the customer churn problem has grown in significance as well. One of the most critical challenges in the data and voice telecommunication service industry is retaining customers, thus reducing customer churn by increasing customer satisfaction. Telecom companies have depended on historical customer data to measure customer churn. However, historical data does not reveal current customer satisfaction or future likeliness to switch between telecom companies. The related research reveals that many studies have focused on developing churner prediction models based on historical data. These models face delay issues and lack timelines for targeting customers in real-time. In addition, these models lack the ability to tap into Arabic language social media for real-time analysis. As a result, the design of a customer churn model based on real-time analytics is needed. Therefore, this study offers a new approach to using social media mining to predict customer churn in the telecommunication field. This represents the first work using Arabic Twitter mining to predict churn in Saudi Telecom companies. The newly proposed method proved its efficiency based on various standard metrics and based on a comparison with the ground-truth actual outcomes provided by a telecom company.
Item Type: | Article |
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Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download PDF (3450Kb) |
Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13070175 |
Publisher statement: | © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/ |
Date accepted: | 21 June 2021 |
Date deposited: | 01 November 2021 |
Date of first online publication: | 05 July 2021 |
Date first made open access: | 01 November 2021 |
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