Detecting Product Review Spammers using Rating Behaviors

• Main Authors: LIM, Ee Peng, NGUYEN, Viet-An, JINDAL, Nitin, LIU, Bing, LAUW, Hady Wirawan
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2010
• Subjects: Algorithms; Measurement; Experimentation; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/623; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1622/viewcontent/cikm_2010_final_spam.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper aims to detect users generating spam reviews or review spammers. We identify several characteristic be- haviors of review spammers and model these behaviors so as to detect the spammers. In particular, we seek to model the following behaviors. First, spammers may target specific products...