Recently, 80% of big data consists of unstructured text data. In particular, various types of documents are stored in the form of large-scale unstructured documents through social network services (SNS), blogs, news, etc., and the importance of unstructured data is highlighted. As the possibility of using unstructured data increases, various analysis techniques such as text mining have recently appeared. Therefore, in this study, topic modeling technique was applied to the Korea Highway Corporation’s voice of customer (VOC) data that includes customer opinions and complaints. Currently, VOC data is divided into the business areas of Korea Expressway Corporation. However, the classified categories are often not accurate, and the ambiguous ones are classified as “other”. Therefore, in order to use VOC data for efficient service improvement and the like, a more systematic and efficient classification method of VOC data is required. To this end, this study proposed two approaches, including method using only the latent dirichlet allocation (LDA), the most representative topic modeling technique, and a new method combining the LDA and the word embedding technique, Word2vec. As a result, it was confirmed that the categories of VOC data are relatively well classified when using the new method. Through these results, it is judged that it will be possible to derive the implications of the Korea Expressway Corporation and utilize it for service improvement.
