Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination
Discourse & deception
The short version
How does fabricated praise differ from a genuine review? This paper introduces a dataset of truthful and deliberately deceptive hotel reviews and compares text classification, psychological language features, and genre-based approaches to identifying deception.
Notes for the reading desk
- The study concerns a specific review dataset, rather than a universal test for lying.
- Text features and psychological features can offer complementary information.
- Context and motivation matter when interpreting apparent deception cues.
Citation
Ott, M., Choi, Y., Cardie, C., & Hancock, J. T. (2011). Finding Deceptive Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination. Proceedings of ACL, 309–319.
Summary and reading notes are editorial guides. The linked paper is the original source.