System, method, and computer program product to determine cuisine type classifiers

Abstract

Provided is a method that includes determining cuisine type classifiers based on merchant data, receiving transaction data associated with each payment transaction of a plurality of payment transactions involving a plurality of merchants and a plurality of consumers; determining, with at least one processor, a plurality of cuisine type labels based on a plurality of merchant names associated with the plurality of payment transactions or a portion of the plurality of payment transactions, wherein a cuisine type label identifies a cuisine type provided by a respective merchant of the plurality of merchants; generating a merchant cuisine type model from the transaction data to determine a cuisine type label of a merchant, the merchant cuisine type model based on the transaction data, and makes an inference based on a combination of merchant or consumer features associated with a payment transaction of the plurality of payment transactions; and automatically predicting one or more cuisine type classifications using the merchant cuisine type model based on one or more payment transactions associated with a consumer. A system and a computer program product are also disclosed.