Deceptive Opinion Spam Detection Using Neural Network

Yafeng Ren, Yue Zhang


Abstract
Deceptive opinion spam detection has attracted significant attention from both business and research communities. Existing approaches are based on manual discrete features, which can capture linguistic and psychological cues. However, such features fail to encode the semantic meaning of a document from the discourse perspective, which limits the performance. In this paper, we empirically explore a neural network model to learn document-level representation for detecting deceptive opinion spam. In particular, given a document, the model learns sentence representations with a convolutional neural network, which are combined using a gated recurrent neural network with attention mechanism to model discourse information and yield a document vector. Finally, the document representation is used directly as features to identify deceptive opinion spam. Experimental results on three domains (Hotel, Restaurant, and Doctor) show that our proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods.
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C16-1014
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Yuji Matsumoto, Rashmi Prasad
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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140–150
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https://aclanthology.org/C16-1014
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Yafeng Ren and Yue Zhang. 2016. Deceptive Opinion Spam Detection Using Neural Network. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, pages 140–150, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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