We also thank the EMNLP reviewers for their helpful comments and advice.
approaches that use our RLDA text representation (OUR APPROACH, TWO-LAYER MANIFOLD (R), and REVIEW-SVR+LDA (R)), which tries to remove city-and hotel-specific information, perform better than those that use the full vocabulary (REVIEW-SVR, TWO-LAYER MANIFOLD (S), and THREE-LAYER MANIFOLD (TF-IDF)).