Review Spam Detection Using Opinion Mining

Author(s):  
Rohit Narayan ◽  
Jitendra Kumar Rout ◽  
Sanjay Kumar Jena
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-76
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Keshavarz ◽  
Ayeshaa Abdul Waheed ◽  
Btissam Rachdi ◽  
Reda Alhajj

Nowadays, millions of products and services are available to the public online. Therefore, searching for the best products which meets individuals' expectations would be difficult due to the existence of too many alternative choices. One of the most reliable approaches to choose a product or service is to exploit the experience of people who have already tried them, and are expected to have reported their almost honest opinions about them. A reviewing system is a place where individuals share their experience on products and services. Individuals may read and/or write their reviews which may be neutral and professional or biased. Moreover, companies utilize reviewing systems to apply opinion mining techniques in order to improve their goods or services and may be to watch their competitors. However, the popularity of reviewing systems ignites this motivation for some people to try to influence viewers by entering their fake reviews to promote some products or defame some others. These spam reviews should be detected and eliminated to prevent misleading potential customers and unethically affect the market. Opinion mining should be adapted to locate and eliminate potential spam reviews. In this paper, some review spam detection approaches have been proposed and examined over a sample dataset. The proposed approaches consider patterns that existed in trends of reviews, as well as reviewers' behavior. The approaches depend on various strategies such as observing abnormal trends, detecting uncommon or suspicious behaviors, investigating group activities, among others. The reported test results revealed some promising outcome.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 6634-6643 ◽  

Opinion mining and sentiment analysis are valuable to extract the useful subjective information out of text documents. Predicting the customer’s opinion on amazon products has several benefits like reducing customer churn, agent monitoring, handling multiple customers, tracking overall customer satisfaction, quick escalations, and upselling opportunities. However, performing sentiment analysis is a challenging task for the researchers in order to find the users sentiments from the large datasets, because of its unstructured nature, slangs, misspells and abbreviations. To address this problem, a new proposed system is developed in this research study. Here, the proposed system comprises of four major phases; data collection, pre-processing, key word extraction, and classification. Initially, the input data were collected from the dataset: amazon customer review. After collecting the data, preprocessing was carried-out for enhancing the quality of collected data. The pre-processing phase comprises of three systems; lemmatization, review spam detection, and removal of stop-words and URLs. Then, an effective topic modelling approach Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) along with modified Possibilistic Fuzzy C-Means (PFCM) was applied to extract the keywords and also helps in identifying the concerned topics. The extracted keywords were classified into three forms (positive, negative and neutral) by applying an effective machine learning classifier: Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The experimental outcome showed that the proposed system enhanced the accuracy in sentiment analysis up to 6-20% related to the existing systems.


2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naveed Hussain ◽  
Hamid Turab Mirza ◽  
Ghulam Rasool ◽  
Ibrar Hussain ◽  
Mohammad Kaleem

Online reviews about the purchase of products or services provided have become the main source of users’ opinions. In order to gain profit or fame, usually spam reviews are written to promote or demote a few target products or services. This practice is known as review spamming. In the past few years, a variety of methods have been suggested in order to solve the issue of spam reviews. In this study, the researchers carry out a comprehensive review of existing studies on spam review detection using the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) approach. Overall, 76 existing studies are reviewed and analyzed. The researchers evaluated the studies based on how features are extracted from review datasets and different methods and techniques that are employed to solve the review spam detection problem. Moreover, this study analyzes different metrics that are used for the evaluation of the review spam detection methods. This literature review identified two major feature extraction techniques and two different approaches to review spam detection. In addition, this study has identified different performance metrics that are commonly used to evaluate the accuracy of the review spam detection models. Lastly, this work presents an overall discussion about different feature extraction approaches from review datasets, the proposed taxonomy of spam review detection approaches, evaluation measures, and publicly available review datasets. Research gaps and future directions in the domain of spam review detection are also presented. This research identified that success factors of any review spam detection method have interdependencies. The feature’s extraction depends upon the review dataset, and the accuracy of review spam detection methods is dependent upon the selection of the feature engineering approach. Therefore, for the successful implementation of the spam review detection model and to achieve better accuracy, these factors are required to be considered in accordance with each other. To the best of the researchers’ knowledge, this is the first comprehensive review of existing studies in the domain of spam review detection using SLR process.


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