Sockpuppet Detection in Wikipedia: A Corpus of Real-World Deceptive Writing for Linking Identities
Computation and Language
2013-10-28 v1 Cryptography and Security
Computers and Society
Abstract
This paper describes the corpus of sockpuppet cases we gathered from Wikipedia. A sockpuppet is an online user account created with a fake identity for the purpose of covering abusive behavior and/or subverting the editing regulation process. We used a semi-automated method for crawling and curating a dataset of real sockpuppet investigation cases. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first corpus available on real-world deceptive writing. We describe the process for crawling the data and some preliminary results that can be used as baseline for benchmarking research. The dataset will be released under a Creative Commons license from our project website: http://docsig.cis.uab.edu.
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@article{arxiv.1310.6772,
title = {Sockpuppet Detection in Wikipedia: A Corpus of Real-World Deceptive Writing for Linking Identities},
author = {Thamar Solorio and Ragib Hasan and Mainul Mizan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.6772},
year = {2013}
}
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4 pages, under submission at LREC 2014