Impact of reviewer social interaction on online consumer review fraud detection

Journal of Big Data

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Goswami, Kunal ^a   Park, Younghee ^a   Song, Chungsik ^a  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Neural networks; Opinion spam; Social interactive behavior

Indexed keywords

CRIME; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FAKE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

BUSINESS PRODUCTS; FEATURES SETS; FRAUD DETECTION; INTERACTIVE BEHAVIOR; NEURAL NETWORKS ALGORITHMS; NEURAL-NETWORKS; ONLINE CONSUMER REVIEWS; OPINION SPAM; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL INTERACTIVE BEHAVIOR;

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR;

EID: 85019205986     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21961115     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40537-017-0075-6     Document Type: Article

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