A study of manipulative and authentic negative reviews

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, ICUIMC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Banerjee, Snehasish ^a   Chua, Alton Y K ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Authentic reviews; Linguistic analysis; Logistic regression; Manipulative reviews; Negative opinion spam

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS;

LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; NEGATIVE OPINION SPAM; ONLINE REVIEWS; SPAMMERS; TRAVEL PLANNING; WRITING STYLE;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84899748156     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2557977.2557984     Document Type: Conference Paper

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