Quantifying Reviewer Credibility in Online Tourism
Lecture notes in computer sciencePublished 1 January 2013
Yuanyuan Wang, Stephen Chan, Grace Ngai, Hong Va Leong
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The experimental results show that both Impact Index and Exposure-Impact Index outperform the state-of-the-art method in measuring the credibility of reviewers to help travellers search for credible reviews.
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24th International Conference on Database and Expert System Applications (DEXA 2013), Prague, August 26-29, 2013
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