Spotting opinion spammers using behavioral footprints

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn Part F128815, Issue , 2013, Pages 632-640

  Mukherjee, Arjun ^a   Kumar, Abhinav ^a   Liu, Bing ^a   Wang, Junhui ^a   Hsu, Meichun ^b   Castellanos, Malu ^b   Ghosh, Riddhiman ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Abuse; Deceptive and fake reviewer detection; Opinion spam

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; EDUCATION;

ABUSE; FAKE REVIEW DETECTIONS; MODEL INFERENCE; OPINION SPAM; PRODUCT REVIEWS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATE OF THE ART;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 85019796905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2487575.2487580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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