A study of manipulative and authentic negative reviews
Given users' growing penchant to use online reviews for travel planning, the business malpractice of posting manipulative reviews to distort the reputation of hotels is on the rise. Some manipulative reviews could be positive and intended to boost own offerings, while others could be negative a...
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| author | Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan Banerjee, Snehasish |
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| description | Given users' growing penchant to use online reviews for travel planning, the business malpractice of posting manipulative reviews to distort the reputation of hotels is on the rise. Some manipulative reviews could be positive and intended to boost own offerings, while others could be negative and meant to slander competing ones. However, most scholarly inquiry hitherto been trained on the former. Hence, this paper investigates the extent to which linguistic cues such as readability, genre and writing style of negative reviews could help predict if they are manipulative or authentic. Analysis of a publicly available dataset of 800 negative reviews (400 manipulative + 400 authentic) indicates that manipulative reviews are generally less readable than authentic reviews. In terms of genre, although manipulative reviews should be imaginative and authentic reviews informative, spammers appear adept enough to blur the line between the two. With respect to writing style, manipulative reviews are more richly embellished with affective cues and perceptual words. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1050602019-12-06T21:45:22Z A study of manipulative and authentic negative reviews Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan Banerjee, Snehasish Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (8th:2014:Cambodia) DRNTU::Library and information science::Knowledge management Given users' growing penchant to use online reviews for travel planning, the business malpractice of posting manipulative reviews to distort the reputation of hotels is on the rise. Some manipulative reviews could be positive and intended to boost own offerings, while others could be negative and meant to slander competing ones. However, most scholarly inquiry hitherto been trained on the former. Hence, this paper investigates the extent to which linguistic cues such as readability, genre and writing style of negative reviews could help predict if they are manipulative or authentic. Analysis of a publicly available dataset of 800 negative reviews (400 manipulative + 400 authentic) indicates that manipulative reviews are generally less readable than authentic reviews. In terms of genre, although manipulative reviews should be imaginative and authentic reviews informative, spammers appear adept enough to blur the line between the two. With respect to writing style, manipulative reviews are more richly embellished with affective cues and perceptual words. Accepted version 2014-08-27T02:44:24Z 2019-12-06T21:45:22Z 2014-08-27T02:44:24Z 2019-12-06T21:45:22Z 2014 2014 Conference Paper Banerjee, S., & Chua, A. Y. K. (2014). A study of manipulative and authentic negative reviews. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, 76. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/105060 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/20405 http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2557984&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=359089675&CFTOKEN=53742352 en © ACM, 2014. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2557984&dl=ACM&coll=DL&CFID=359089675&CFTOKEN=53742352. 6 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Library and information science::Knowledge management Chua, Alton Yeow Kuan Banerjee, Snehasish A study of manipulative and authentic negative reviews |
| title | A study of manipulative and authentic negative reviews |
| title_full | A study of manipulative and authentic negative reviews |
| title_fullStr | A study of manipulative and authentic negative reviews |
| title_full_unstemmed | A study of manipulative and authentic negative reviews |
| title_short | A study of manipulative and authentic negative reviews |
| title_sort | study of manipulative and authentic negative reviews |
| topic | DRNTU::Library and information science::Knowledge management |
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