Consumers increasingly go online to rate, review and research products (Jansen, 2010; Litvin et al., 2008). Consequently, websites containing these reviews are becoming targets of...
Myle Ott, Yejin Choi, Claire Cardie, Jeffrey T. Ha...
In this paper we propose a new reciprocity index for quantifying social relationships based on mobile phone call detail records and Twitter blogs. We use this reciprocity index to ...
This paper focuses on spam blog (splog) detection. Blogs are highly popular, new media social communication mechanisms and splogs corrupt blog search results as well as waste netw...
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Yun Chi, Jun'ichi Tatemu...
This paper aims to detect users generating spam reviews or review spammers. We identify several characteristic behaviors of review spammers and model these behaviors so as to dete...
Internet blogs provide forums for discussions within virtual communities, allowing readers to post comments on what they read. However, such comments may contain abuse, such as pe...