EDBT 2026 Demo / reviewers in the wild / expert
Amir Fayazi
dblp:166/3387
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
0since 2021 · last 2015
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Data mining · 61% Web and social media mining · 39% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Web and social media mining › online review analysis
fake review detection |
0.2 | 1 | 2015 | Uncovering Crowdsourced Manipulation of Online Reviews · SIGIR 2015 |
Data mining › anomaly detection › spam detection
review spam detection |
0.2 | 1 | 2015 | Uncovering Crowdsourced Manipulation of Online Reviews · SIGIR 2015 |
Data mining › text mining
sentiment analysis |
0.2 | 1 | 2015 | Uncovering Crowdsourced Manipulation of Online Reviews · SIGIR 2015 |
Web and social media mining
online review analysis |
0.1 | 1 | 2015 | Uncovering Crowdsourced Manipulation of Online Reviews · SIGIR 2015 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
simrank · 0.2markov random field · 0.2graph clustering · 0.2classification · 0.2
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Uncovering Crowdsourced Manipulation of Online ReviewsabstractOnline reviews are a cornerstone of consumer decision making. However, their authenticity and quality has proven hard to control, especially as polluters target these reviews toward promoting products or in degrading competitors. In a troubling direction, the widespread growth of crowdsourcing platforms like Mechanical Turk has created a large-scale, potentially difficult-to-detect workforce of malicious review writers. Hence, this paper tackles the challenge of uncovering crowdsourced manipulation of online reviews through a three-part effort: (i) First, we propose a novel sampling method for identifying products that have been targeted for manipulation and a seed set of deceptive reviewers who have been enlisted through crowdsourcing platforms. (ii) Second, we augment this base set of deceptive reviewers through a reviewer-reviewer graph clustering approach based on a Markov Random Field where we define individual potentials (of single reviewers) and pair potentials (between two reviewers). (iii) Finally, we embed the results of this probabilistic model into a classification framework for detecting crowd-manipulated reviews. We find that the proposed approach achieves up to 0.96 AUC, outperforming both traditional detection methods and a SimRank-based alternative clustering approach. Amir Fayazi, Kyumin Lee, James Caverlee, Anna Cinzia Squicciarini |
SIGIR | 1 |