Reliability of reviews on the internet: The case of trip advisor

Alton Y.K. Chua, Snehasish Banerjee

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Abstract

Given the rampant growth of travel-related user-generated content on the Internet, this paper seeks to investigate the reliability of reviews in TripAdvisor, a popular travel review site. To support the goal, two objectives are submitted. The first is to locate clusters of highly-interlocked hotels that have been evaluated by a common pool of reviewers. This enables review baselines to be established, which in turn facilitates detection of anomalies. The second is to determine the inter-reviewer and intra-reviewer reliability of reviews. Results suggest that reviews in TripAdvisor could be largely reliable. The findings gleaned from the results are discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWCECS 2013 - World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science 2013
PublisherNewswood Limited
Pages453-457
Number of pages5
ISBN (Print)9789881925169
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science, WCECS 2013 - San Francisco, CA, United States
Duration: Oct 23 2013Oct 25 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science
Volume1
ISSN (Print)2078-0958

Conference

Conference2013 World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science, WCECS 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco, CA
Period10/23/1310/25/13

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Computer Science (miscellaneous)

Keywords

  • Online reviews
  • Reliability
  • Social network analysis
  • User-generated content

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