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    Detecting fake reviews through topic modelling
    (ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2022) Sule Ozturk Birim; Ipek Kazancoglu; Sachin Kumar Mangla; Aysun Kahraman; Satish Kumar; Yigit Kazancoglu; Kumar Mangla, Sachin; Kazancoglu, Ipek; Kazancoglu, Yigit; Birim, Sule Ozturk; Kumar, Satish; Mangla, Sachin Kumar; Kahraman, Aysun
    Against the uncertainty caused by the information overload in the online world consumers can benefit greatly by reading online product reviews before making their online purchases. However some of the reviews are written deceptively to manipulate purchasing decisions. The purpose of present study is to determine which feature combination is most effective in fake review detection among the features of sentiment scores topic distributions cluster distributions and bag of words. In this study additional feature combinations to a sentiment analysis are searched to examine the critical problem of fake reviews made to influence the decision-making process using review from amazon.com dataset. Results of the study points that behavior-related features play an important role in fake review classifications when jointly used with text-related features. Verified purchase is the only behavior related feature used comparatively with other text-related features.