Abstract:
"The project aims to develop a fake review detection system using the BERT (Bidirectional Encoder
Representations from Transformers) model and various natural language processing techniques. The
system preprocesses text data by tokenizing, removing stop words, and lemmatizing the reviews. It then
uses BERT, a pre-trained transformer-based model, for sequence classification to distinguish between real
and fake reviews.
The project incorporates BERT's tokenizer and sequence classification model, along with PyTorch and
the Hugging Face Transformers library. The data is split into training and validation sets, and evaluation
metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, and F1 score are computed. The model is trained on the
training set and evaluated on the validation set. The best model is saved for future use.
Furthermore, the project extends the fake review detection to classify different types of fake reviews,
including incentive, competitor, and malicious reviews. Separate classification models are fine-tuned
using the BERT model and trained on labeled data. The incentive, competitor, and malicious
classification models are evaluated separately and their performance is assessed using evaluation metrics.
To enhance the analysis, the project also incorporates sentiment analysis using TextBlob and linguistic
analysis using NLTK. The sentiment polarity of reviews is calculated, and linguistic features such as part-
of-speech tagging are extracted.
The system provides a function to analyze and classify input text as real or fake. It outputs the predicted
label, probability of being real, sentiment polarity, reason for classification, and classification results for
different types of fake reviews. It also offers visualization features to display linguistic features, entity
relations, and confusion matrices.
Overall, the project demonstrates the application of BERT-based models and natural language processing
techniques for fake review detection and classification, providing insights into the authenticity of online
reviews."
