Title
Detecting Spammer Communities Using Network Structural Features.
Abstract
Spammers generate fake reviews to influence the reputation of products. By grouping together, spammers can dramatically alter how products are perceived. Different from previous research, which has mostly used behavioral indicators and structural indicators, we propose a new perspective on spammer detection. In our approach, we portray reviewers as a comment-based reviewer network through a new collusion similarity measure, divide reviewers into different communities using an effective community detection method and separate spammer communities from normal reviewer communities through network structure. We find that spammer communities have different network structural features from normal reviewer communities, a high clustering coefficient and high self-similarity. In our experiments, we show that our method achieves a detection accuracy of 94.59% - substantially higher than the current state-of-the-art methods which achieve an 80.00% accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/978-3-030-00916-8_61
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics, and Telecommunications Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Fake reviews,Spammer community,The comment-based reviewer network,Network structural features
Similarity measure,Computer science,Computer network,Artificial intelligence,Clustering coefficient,Fake reviews,Machine learning,Collusion,Spamming,Reputation,Network structure
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
252
1867-8211
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wen Zhou141.81
Meng Liu23918.70
Yajun Zhang301.01