Discovering opinion spammer groups by network footprints

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 9284, Issue , 2015, Pages 267-282

  Ye, Junting ^a   Akoglu, Leman ^a  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficient hierarchical clustering; Graph anomaly detection; Network footprints; Opinion spam; Spam detection; Spammer groups

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

ANOMALY DETECTION; HIER-ARCHICAL CLUSTERING; OPINION SPAM; SPAM DETECTION; SPAMMER GROUPS;

INTERNET;

EID: 84984636130     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23528-8_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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