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Online reviews are a vital source of information when purchasing a service or a product. Opinion spammers manipulate these reviews, deliberately altering the overall perception of the service. Though there exists a corpus of online reviews,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Athirai A. Irissappane , Hanfei Yu , Yankun Shen , Anubha Agrawal , Gray Stanton

E-commerce is the fastest-growing segment of the economy. Online reviews play a crucial role in helping consumers evaluate and compare products and services. As a result, fake reviews (opinion spam) are becoming more prevalent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Kiril Danilchenko , Michael Segal , Dan Vilenchik

The publication of fake reviews by parties with vested interests has become a severe problem for consumers who use online product reviews in their decision making. To counter this problem a number of methods for detecting these fake…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-03 David Savage , Xiuzhen Zhang , Xinghuo Yu , Pauline Chou , Qingmai Wang

Online reviews are potent sources for industry owners and buyers, however opportunistic people may try to destruct or promote their desired product by publishing fake comments named spam opinion. So far, many models have been developed to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Amir Jalaly Bidgolya , Zoleikha Rahmaniana

In the past few years, consumer review sites have become the main target of deceptive opinion spam, where fictitious opinions or reviews are deliberately written to sound authentic. Most of the existing work to detect the deceptive reviews…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Hojjat Aghakhani , Aravind Machiry , Shirin Nilizadeh , Christopher Kruegel , Giovanni Vigna

The exponential growth of spam text on the Internet necessitates robust detection mechanisms to mitigate risks such as information leakage and social instability. This work addresses two principal challenges: adversarial strategies employed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Zhijie Wang , Zixin Xu , Zhiyuan Pan

The promising performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in text classification, has attracted researchers to use them for fraud review detection. However, the lack of trusted labeled data has limited the performance of the current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Saeedreza Shehnepoor , Roberto Togneri , Wei Liu , Mohammed Bennamoun

A robust and reliable system of detecting spam reviews is a crying need in todays world in order to purchase products without being cheated from online sites. In many online sites, there are options for posting reviews, and thus creating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 G. M. Shahariar , Swapnil Biswas , Faiza Omar , Faisal Muhammad Shah , Samiha Binte Hassan

Consumers increasingly rate, review and research products online. Consequently, websites containing consumer reviews are becoming targets of opinion spam. While recent work has focused primarily on manually identifiable instances of opinion…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2011-07-25 Myle Ott , Yejin Choi , Claire Cardie , Jeffrey T. Hancock

Nowadays, there are a lot of people using social media opinions to make their decision on buying products or services. Opinion spam detection is a hard problem because fake reviews can be made by organizations as well as individuals for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-31 L. H. Nguyen , N. T. H. Pham , V. M. Ngo

With the prevalence of the Internet, online reviews have become a valuable information resource for people. However, the authenticity of online reviews remains a concern, and deceptive reviews have become one of the most urgent network…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Yuan Gao , Maoguo Gong , Yu Xie , A. K. Qin

Due to the huge commercial interests behind online reviews, a tremendousamount of spammers manufacture spam reviews for product reputation manipulation. To further enhance the influence of spam reviews, spammers often collaboratively post…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Ziyang Wang , Wei Wei , Xian-Ling Mao , Guibing Guo , Pan Zhou , Shanshan Feng

Nowadays, a big part of people rely on available content in social media in their decisions (e.g. reviews and feedback on a topic or product). The possibility that anybody can leave a review provide a golden opportunity for spammers to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Saeedreza Shehnepoor , Mostafa Salehi , Reza Farahbakhsh , Noel Crespi

Consumers' purchase decisions are increasingly influenced by user-generated online reviews. Accordingly, there has been growing concern about the potential for posting deceptive opinion spam fictitious reviews that have been deliberately…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-09-17 Tao Wang , Hua Zhu

Online consumer reviews reflect the testimonials of real people, unlike advertisements. As such, they have critical impact on potential consumers, and indirectly on businesses. According to a Harvard study (Luca 2011), +1 rise in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-08 Junting Ye , Santhosh Kumar , Leman Akoglu

This paper investigates the potential of semi-supervised Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to fine-tune pretrained language models in order to classify Bengali fake reviews from real reviews with a few annotated data. With the rise of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Md. Tanvir Rouf Shawon , G. M. Shahariar , Faisal Muhammad Shah , Mohammad Shafiul Alam , Md. Shahriar Mahbub

Online reviews have increasingly become a very important resource for consumers when making purchases. Though it is becoming more and more difficult for people to make well-informed buying decisions without being deceived by fake reviews.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Vlad Sandulescu , Martin Ester

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

Over the last years, online reviews became very important since they can influence the purchase decision of consumers and the reputation of businesses, therefore, the practice of writing fake reviews can have severe consequences on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Michela Fazzolari , Francesco Buccafurri , Gianluca Lax , Marinella Petrocchi

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
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