Turning the tide: Curbing deceptive Yelp behaviors

SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2014, SDM 2014

Volumn 1, Issue , 2014, Pages 244-252

  Rahman, Mahmudur ^a   Carbunar, Bogdan ^a   Ballesteros, Jaime ^b   Burri, George ^c   Chau, Duen Horng ^d  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Nokia Inc   (South Korea)

^c Jive Software   (United States)

^d GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

CAR REPAIR; GOLD STANDARDS; GROUND TRUTH; LARGE DATASET; MALICIOUS BEHAVIOR; SAN FRANCISCO; STATE-OF-THE-ART APPROACH; TEMPORAL SIGNALS;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84959908374     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1137/1.9781611973440.28     Document Type: Conference Paper

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