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A Multi-type Classifier Ensemble for Detecting Fake Reviews Through Textualbased Feature Extraction

Budhi, Gregorius Satia and Chiong, Raymond (2022) A Multi-type Classifier Ensemble for Detecting Fake Reviews Through Textualbased Feature Extraction. [UNSPECIFIED]

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      Abstract

      The financial impact of online reviews has prompted some fraudulent sellers to generate fake consumer reviews for either promoting their products or discrediting competing products. In this study, we propose a novel ensemble model - the Multitype Classifier Ensemble (MtCE) - combined with a textual-based featuring method, which is relatively independent of the system, to detect fake online consumer reviews. Unlike other ensemble models that utilise only the same type of single classifier, our proposed ensemble utilises several customised machine learning classifiers (including deep learning models) as its base classifiers. The results of our experiments show that the MtCE can adequately detect fake reviews, and that it outperforms other single and ensemble methods in terms of accuracy and other measurements in all the relevant public datasets used in this study. Moreover, if set correctly, the parameters of MtCE, such as base-classifier types, the total number of base classifiers, bootstrap and the method to vote on output (e.g., majority or priority), further improve the performance of the proposed ensemble.

      Item Type: UNSPECIFIED
      Uncontrolled Keywords: Fake review detection, online commerce security, novel ensemble model, machine learning, deep learning.
      Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
      Divisions: Faculty of Industrial Technology > Informatics Engineering Department
      Depositing User: Admin
      Date Deposited: 23 Oct 2022 07:04
      Last Modified: 24 Oct 2022 11:39
      URI: https://repository.petra.ac.id/id/eprint/20058

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