Input online review data and related bias in recommender systems
Decision Support SystemsPublished 17 February 2012Open access
Selwyn Piramuthu, Gaurav Kapoor, Wei Zhou, Sjouke Mauw
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This work considers a specific type of bias that is introduced in online product reviews due to the sequence in which these reviews are written and model several scenarios in this context and study their properties.
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