Techniques are provided for selecting a limited but comprehensive set of high-quality users reviews covering several different aspects or attributes of a reviewed item. For several implementations, selection methodologies approach the challenge as a maximum coverage problem and provide a generic formalism to model the different variants of the review-set selection. Variations to such implementation may also employ different algorithms in consideration of different variants and weightings of those variants. Select implementations employ methodologies that collectively consider attributes of the item discussed in the reviews, the quality of the reviews themselves, and the viewpoint of the reviews (e.g., positive or negative) as input values in order to provide outputs that cover as many attributes of the item as possible, comprising high quality reviews representing different viewpoints.