Detecting group review spam
Published 28 March 2011
Arjun Mukherjee, Bing Liu, Junhui Wang, Natalie Glance, Nitin Jindal
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This paper proposes an effective technique to detect spammer groups and focuses on the task of detecting fake reviews written by spammers.
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It is well-known that many online reviews are not written by genuine users of products, but by spammers who write fake reviews to promote or demote some target products. Although some existing works have been done to detect fake reviews and individual spammers, to our knowledge, no work has been done on detecting spammer groups. This paper focuses on this task and proposes an effective technique to detect such groups.
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