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Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Co Van Dinh , Son T. Luu , Anh Gia-Tuan Nguyen

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

Ranking problem has attracted much attention in real systems. How to design a robust ranking method is especially significant for online rating systems under the threat of spamming attacks. By building reputation systems for users, many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Jian Gao , Yu-Wei Dong , Mingsheng Shang , Shi-Min Cai , Tao Zhou

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

In this paper we perform an analytic comparison of a number of techniques used to detect fake and deceptive online reviews. We apply a number machine learning approaches found to be effective, and introduce our own approach by fine-tuning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Stefan Kennedy , Niall Walsh , Kirils Sloka , Jennifer Foster , Andrew McCarren

Spam reviews are a pervasive problem on online platforms due to its significant impact on reputation. However, research into spam detection in data streams is scarce. Another concern lies in their need for transparency. Consequently, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Francisco de Arriba-Pérez , Silvia García-Méndez , Fátima Leal , Benedita Malheiro , J. C. Burguillo

Social reviews are indispensable resources for modern consumers' decision making. For financial gain, companies pay fraudsters preferably in groups to demote or promote products and services since consumers are more likely to be misled by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Saeedreza Shehnepoor , Roberto Togneri , Wei Liu , Mohammed Bennamoun

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

In the contemporary digital landscape, online reviews have become an indispensable tool for promoting products and services across various businesses. Marketers, advertisers, and online businesses have found incentives to create deceptive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Anusuya Baby Hari Krishnan

Growing amounts of online user data motivate the need for automated processing techniques. In case of user ratings, one interesting option is to use neural networks for learning to predict ratings given an item and a user. While training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Philipp Blandfort , Tushar Karayil , Federico Raue , Jörn Hees , Andreas Dengel

Recommender systems play a crucial role in helping users to find their interested information in various web services such as Amazon, YouTube, and Google News. Various recommender systems, ranging from neighborhood-based,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Hai Huang , Jiaming Mu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Qi Li , Bin Liu , Mingwei Xu

Ranking problem of web-based rating system has attracted many attentions. A good ranking algorithm should be robust against spammer attack. Here we proposed a correlation based reputation algorithm to solve the ranking problem of such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Yanbo Zhou , Ting Lei , Tao Zhou

This article is inspired by video classification technology. If the user behavior subspace is viewed as a frame image, consecutive frame images are viewed as a video. Following this novel idea, a model for spammer detection based on user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Haoyang Zhang , Zhou Yang , Yucai Pang

Due to the increasing trend of performing spamming activities (e.g., Web spam, deceptive reviews, fake followers, etc.) on various online platforms to gain undeserved benefits, spam detection has emerged as a hot research issue. Previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yuli Liu

In the last decade we have witnessed the explosive growth of online social networking services (SNSs) such as Facebook, Twitter, RenRen and LinkedIn. While SNSs provide diverse benefits for example, forstering interpersonal relationships,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Sihyun Jeong , Giseop Noh , Hayoung Oh , Chong-kwon Kim

The spread of online reviews and opinions and its growing influence on people's behavior and decisions, boosted the interest to extract meaningful information from this data deluge. Hence, crowdsourced ratings of products and services…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Joao Saude , Guilherme Ramos , Ludovico Boratto , Carlos Caleiro

Nowadays, social media plays an important role in many fields, such as the promotion of measures against major infectious diseases, merchandising, etc. In social media, some people are known as opinion leaders due to their strong ability to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Yunming Hui , Luuk Buijsman , Mel Chekol , Shihan Wang

The battle between email service providers and senders of mass unsolicited emails (Spam) continues to gain traction. Vast numbers of Spam emails are sent mainly from automatic botnets distributed over the world. One method for mitigating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Eitan Menahem , Rami Puzis

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

We propose a general framework for the recommendation of possible customers (users) to advertisers (e.g., brands) based on the comparison between On-line Social Network profiles. In particular, we represent both user and brand profiles as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Mariella Bonomo , Gaspare Ciaccio , Andrea De Salve , Simona E. Rombo