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Computer Science and Software Engineering Capstone Presentations

Summer Quarter

August 21, 2020

Matthew Bui

"Detector of Fake Reviews on Yelp"

(UWB CSS Faculty Research)

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Min Chen

Abstract

Fake Reviews are made to mislead customers about a business as they are unhelpful to giving users accurate information about a business. In my project, we scraped reviews from Yelp to build a model that allowed users to predict if a given review is most likely real or fake. Yelp already has a filter for reviews that are unhelpful to users and businesses that we can classify as fake reviews. Using a web scraper, we scraped normal reviews found on business pages and these filtered reviews into a data set. This data set was then processed into reviewer features and n-gram text features to train a model to predict fake reviews. A user will then be allowed to predict if a review is real given a Yelp review via a URL.

Updated August 19, 2020, 01:17