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Understanding Large-Scale Network Effects in Detecting Review Spammers

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Understanding Large-Scale Network Effects in Detecting Review Spammers. / Rout, Jitendra Kumar; Sahoo, Kshira Sagar; Dalmia, Anmol et al.
In: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Vol. 11, No. 4, 31.08.2024.

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Rout, JK, Sahoo, KS, Dalmia, A, Bakshi, S, Bilal, M & Song, H 2024, 'Understanding Large-Scale Network Effects in Detecting Review Spammers', IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, vol. 11, no. 4. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSS.2023.3243139

APA

Rout, J. K., Sahoo, K. S., Dalmia, A., Bakshi, S., Bilal, M., & Song, H. (2024). Understanding Large-Scale Network Effects in Detecting Review Spammers. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 11(4). https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSS.2023.3243139

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Rout JK, Sahoo KS, Dalmia A, Bakshi S, Bilal M, Song H. Understanding Large-Scale Network Effects in Detecting Review Spammers. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. 2024 Aug 31;11(4). Epub 2023 Feb 14. doi: 10.1109/TCSS.2023.3243139

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Rout, Jitendra Kumar ; Sahoo, Kshira Sagar ; Dalmia, Anmol et al. / Understanding Large-Scale Network Effects in Detecting Review Spammers. In: IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. 2024 ; Vol. 11, No. 4.

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title = "Understanding Large-Scale Network Effects in Detecting Review Spammers",
abstract = "Opinion spam detection is a challenge for online review systems and social forum operators. Opinion spamming costs businesses and people money since it deceives customers as well as automated opinion mining and sentiment analysis systems by bestowing undeserved positive opinions on target firms and/or bestowing fake negative opinions on others. One popular detection approach is to model a review system as a network of users, products, and reviews, for example using review graph models. In this article, we study the effects of network scale on network-based review spammer detection models, specifically on the trust model and the SpammerRank model. We then evaluate both network models using two large publicly available review datasets, namely: the Amazon dataset (containing 6 million reviews by more than 2 million reviewers) and the UCSD dataset (containing over 82 million reviews by 21 million reviewers). It has been observed thatSpammerRank model provides a better scaling time for applications requiring reviewer indicators and in case of trust model distributions are flattening out indicating variance of reviews with respect to spamming. Detailed observations on the scaling effects of these models are reported in the result section.",
keywords = "Analytical models, Behavioral sciences, Feature extraction, Online review spam, opinion spam, review graphs, Scalability, Sentiment analysis, spam detection, unlabeled review, Unsolicited e-mail, Writing",
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AB - Opinion spam detection is a challenge for online review systems and social forum operators. Opinion spamming costs businesses and people money since it deceives customers as well as automated opinion mining and sentiment analysis systems by bestowing undeserved positive opinions on target firms and/or bestowing fake negative opinions on others. One popular detection approach is to model a review system as a network of users, products, and reviews, for example using review graph models. In this article, we study the effects of network scale on network-based review spammer detection models, specifically on the trust model and the SpammerRank model. We then evaluate both network models using two large publicly available review datasets, namely: the Amazon dataset (containing 6 million reviews by more than 2 million reviewers) and the UCSD dataset (containing over 82 million reviews by 21 million reviewers). It has been observed thatSpammerRank model provides a better scaling time for applications requiring reviewer indicators and in case of trust model distributions are flattening out indicating variance of reviews with respect to spamming. Detailed observations on the scaling effects of these models are reported in the result section.

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KW - Behavioral sciences

KW - Feature extraction

KW - Online review spam

KW - opinion spam

KW - review graphs

KW - Scalability

KW - Sentiment analysis

KW - spam detection

KW - unlabeled review

KW - Unsolicited e-mail

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