Stylometric identification in electronic markets: Scalability and robustness

Journal of Management Information Systems

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-78

  Abbasi, Ahmed ^a   Chen, Hsinchun ^b   Nunamaker Jr , Jay F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anti aliasing; Electronic markets; Online trust; Similarity detection; Stylometry

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; EQUIPMENT TESTING; SCALABILITY;

ANTI-ALIASING; ELECTRONIC MARKET PLACES; ELECTRONIC MARKETS; EXTENDED FEATURE SET; FEATURE SETS; FEEDBACK COMMENTS; ONLINE TRUST; REPUTATION SYSTEMS; SIMILARITY DETECTION; STYLOMETRY; TEST BEDS; WRITING STYLES;

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

EID: 49049110756     PISSN: 07421222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/MIS0742-1222250103     Document Type: Article

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