Recognition of manipulated posts based on SVM classification on bulletin board system

Author

Wang, Biao ; Gao, Qian ; Liu, Yueqin ; Guo, Yuhong ; Wu, Yang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Univ. of Int. Relations, Beijing, China

Volume

3

fYear

2011

fDate

10-12 June 2011

Firstpage

90

Lastpage

94

Abstract

Inspired by the fact that online Public Relations (online PR) companies manipulate the online information and confuse people about the truth of information, a novel problem of identifying messages that are controlled by online PR companies is presented. Combined with the knowledge of characteristics of opinion leaders, methods of agenda setting and strategy patterns of online PR companies, a set of features which can identify manipulated posts on bulletin board system (BBS) is proposed and verified by using classification methods. Experiments with data from real-world BBS are conducted to evaluate the ability of the feature set. The verification using Support Vector Machines proves that the feature set can be used for identification with the accuracy surpassing 74%.

Keywords

Internet; classification; organisational aspects; public relations; support vector machines; SVM classification; agenda setting; bulletin board system; classification methods; feature set; identifying messages; manipulated posts recognition; online PR company; online information; online public relations company; opinion leaders; real-world BBS; strategy patterns; support vector machines; Companies; Instruction sets; Internet; Lead; Measurement; Message systems; Public relations; Bulletin Board System; Classification; Manipulated Post; Recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Automation Engineering (CSAE), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8727-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSAE.2011.5952640

Filename

5952640