Spam Review Detection:A Systematic Literature Review
- Muhammad Shoaib Farooq
Abstract
In this era of technology, people rely on online posted reviews before
buying any product. These reviews are very important for both the
consumers and people. Consumers and people use this information for
decision making while buying products or investing money in any product.
This has inclined the spammers to generate spam or fake reviews so that
they can recommend their products and beat the competitors. Spammers
have developed many systems to generate the bulk of spam reviews within
hours. Many techniques, strategies have been designed and recommended to
resolve the issue of spam reviews. In this paper, a complete review of
existing techniques and strategies for detecting spam review is
discussed. Apart from reviewing the state-of-the-art research studies on
spam review detection, a taxonomy on techniques of machine learning for
spam review detection has been proposed. Moreover, its focus on research
gaps and future recommendations for spam review identification.