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Online review systems are important components in influencing customers' purchase decisions. To manipulate a product's reputation, many stores hire large numbers of people to produce fake reviews to mislead customers. Previous methods…
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Media news are making a large part of public opinion and, therefore, must not be fake. News on web sites, blogs, and social media must be analyzed before being published. In this paper, we present linguistic characteristics of media news…
It is well known that fraudulent reviews cast doubt on the legitimacy and dependability of online purchases. The most recent development that leads customers towards darkness is the appearance of human reviews in computer-generated (CG)…