Distortion as a validation criterion in the identification of suspicious reviews

SOMA 2010 - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Social Media Analytics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 10-13

  Wu, Guangyu ^a   Greene, Derek ^a   Smyth, Barry ^a   Cunningham, Pádraig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Credibility; Shilling; User generated content

Indexed keywords

CREDIBILITY; DATA SETS; DETECTION MECHANISM; POPULARITY RANKING; RANK CORRELATION; SHILLING; USER-GENERATED CONTENT; VALIDATION CRITERIA;

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EID: 79956023811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1964858.1964860     Document Type: Conference Paper

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