An empirical study of online consumer review spam: A design science approach

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lau, Raymond Y K ^a   Liao, Stephen S Y ^a   Xu, Kaiquan ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Econometric analysis; Electronic commerce; Kullback leibler divergence; Language modeling; Online reviews; Review spam; Spam detection

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED DETECTION; BASELINE METHODS; DESIGN SCIENCE; ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPERIMENT CONFIRM; KULLBACK LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; LANGUAGE MODELING; NOVEL METHODOLOGY; ONLINE CONSUMER REVIEWS; PRODUCT SALES; RESEARCH PROBLEMS; SPAM DETECTION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DESIGN; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH;

INTERNET;

EID: 84870962608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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