Identifying ground truth in opinion spam: an empirical survey based on review psychology

J Li, X Wang, L Yang, P Zhang, D Yang - Applied Intelligence, 2020 - Springer
Because it is very harmful, opinion spam, especially that involving untruthful reviews, has
attracted much attention in the last decade. However, the lack of annotations, ie, the ground …

Online ballot stuffing: Influence of self-boosting manipulation on rating dynamics in online rating systems

L Zhang, SF Wang, ZZ Lin, Y Wu - Telematics and Informatics, 2019 - Elsevier
Vendors on online shopping platforms have incentives to provide misinformation by
manipulating consumer ratings. However, few studies have empirically examined whether …

Identifying review spam with an unsupervised approach based on topic abuse

J Li, N Li, L Yang, P Zhang - … of the 8th International Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The harmfulness of review spam (also known as deceptive opinion) has long been
recognized. However, due to the lack of supervised annotations, detecting these fake …

Security Study of Ranking Algorithms

A Noureldeen - 2020 - etda.libraries.psu.edu
Rankings, ratings, and reviews are properties that play an important role in social media
networks and platforms. Many users base their decision solely on such properties before …