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In this digital era, online shopping is common practice in our daily lives. Product reviews significantly influence consumer buying behavior and help establish buyer trust. However, the prevalence of fraudulent reviews undermines this trust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Mst Eshita Khatun , Halima Akter , Tasnimul Rehan , Toufiq Ahmed

A reputable social media or review account can be a good cover for spamming activities. It has become prevalent that spammers buy/sell such accounts openly on the Web. We call these sold/bought accounts the changed-hands (CH) accounts. They…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Geli Fei , Shuai Wang , Bing Liu , Leman Akoglu

Recently, Vietnamese Natural Language Processing has been researched by experts in academic and business. However, the existing papers have been focused only on information classification or extraction from documents. Nowadays, with quickly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-16 T. H. H Duong , T. D. Vu , V. M. Ngo

As crowdsourcing emerges as an efficient and cost-effective method for obtaining labels for machine learning datasets, it is important to assess the quality of crowd-provided data, so as to improve analysis performance and reduce biases in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Yang Ba , Michelle V. Mancenido , Erin K. Chiou , Rong Pan

Advanced neural language models (NLMs) are widely used in sequence generation tasks because they are able to produce fluent and meaningful sentences. They can also be used to generate fake reviews, which can then be used to attack online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-04 David Ifeoluwa Adelani , Haotian Mai , Fuming Fang , Huy H. Nguyen , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen

This paper presents a pipeline to detect and explain anomalous reviews in online platforms. The pipeline is made up of three modules and allows the detection of reviews that do not generate value for users due to either worthless or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-29 David Novoa-Paradela , Oscar Fontenla-Romero , Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas

Job descriptions are posted on many online channels, including company websites, job boards or social media platforms. These descriptions are usually published with varying text for the same job, due to the requirements of each platform or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Matthias Engelbach , Dennis Klau , Maximilien Kintz , Alexander Ulrich

Comments received from referees during peer-review were analysed to determine the rates of duplication and partial duplication. It is very unusual for 2 different referees to submit identical comments, so the rare cases where this happens…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Adam Day

Online commerce relies heavily on user generated reviews to provide unbiased information about products that they have not physically seen. The importance of reviews has attracted multiple exploitative online behaviours and requires methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Priyabrata Karmakar , John Hawkins

App stores include an increasing amount of user feedback in form of app ratings and reviews. Research and recently also tool vendors have proposed analytics and data mining solutions to leverage this feedback to developers and analysts,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Daniel Martens , Walid Maalej

Product reviews are extremely valuable for online shoppers in providing purchase decisions. Driven by immense profit incentives, fraudsters deliberately fabricate untruthful reviews to distort the reputation of online products. As online…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Zhuo Wang , Runlong Hu , Qian Chen , Pei Gao , Xiaowei Xu

Review websites, such as TripAdvisor and Yelp, allow users to post online reviews for various businesses, products and services, and have been recently shown to have a significant influence on consumer shopping behaviour. An online review…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-05-19 Nabiha Asghar

"What other people think" has always been an important piece of information during various decision-making processes. Today people frequently make their opinions available via the Internet, and as a result, the Web has become an excellent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-11-23 Samaneh Moghaddam , Fred Popowich

The lack of large realistic datasets presents a bottleneck in online deception detection studies. In this paper, we apply a data collection method based on social network analysis to quickly identify high-quality deceptive and truthful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Wenlin Yao , Zeyu Dai , Ruihong Huang , James Caverlee

The communication revolution has perpetually reshaped the means through which people send and receive information. Social media is an important pillar of this revolution and has brought profound changes to various aspects of our lives.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Bilal Abu-Salih , Dana Al Qudah , Malak Al-Hassan , Seyed Mohssen Ghafari , Tomayess Issa , Ibrahim Aljarah , Amin Beheshti , Sulaiman Alqahtan

The popularity of online shopping is steadily increasing. At the same time, fake product reviewsare published widely and have the potential to affect consumer purchasing behavior. In response,previous work has developed automated methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Felix Soldner , Bennett Kleinberg , Shane Johnson

As the popularity of content sharing websites such as YouTube and Flickr has increased, they have become targets for spam, phishing and the distribution of malware. On YouTube, the facility for users to post comments can be used by spam…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-01-19 Derek O'Callaghan , Martin Harrigan , Joe Carthy , Pádraig Cunningham

Spam pages are designed to maliciously appear among the top search results by excessive usage of popular terms. Therefore, spam pages should be removed using an effective and efficient spam detection system. Previous methods for web spam…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-07-25 Ali Hadian , Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli

Fake news is a growing problem in the last years, especially during elections. It's hard work to identify what is true and what is false among all the user generated content that circulates every day. Technology can help with that work and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Caio Almeida , Débora Santos

Online shopping stores have grown steadily over the past few years. Due to the massive growth of these businesses, the detection of fake reviews has attracted attention. Fake reviews are seriously trying to mislead customers and thereby…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Abrar Qadir Mir , Furqan Yaqub Khan , Mohammad Ahsan Chishti