Discrimination of authorship using visualization
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Attribution accuracy when using anonymity in group support systems
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: group support systems
Simulated social control for secure Internet commerce
NSPW '96 Proceedings of the 1996 workshop on New security paradigms
Social translucence: an approach to designing systems that support social processes
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on human-computer interaction in the new millennium, Part 1
Communications of the ACM
The effect of negative buyer feedback on prices in Internet auction markets
ICIS '00 Proceedings of the twenty first international conference on Information systems
Mining e-mail content for author identification forensics
ACM SIGMOD Record
A Comparative Study on Feature Selection in Text Categorization
ICML '97 Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Machine Learning
A Computational Model of Trust and Reputation for E-businesses
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 7 - Volume 7
Style mining of electronic messages for multiple authorship discrimination: first results
Proceedings of the ninth ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining
Frictionless Commerce? A Comparison of Internet and Conventional Retailers
Management Science
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on World Wide Web
Building Effective Online Marketplaces with Institution-Based Trust
Information Systems Research
Extraction of Java program fingerprints for software authorship identification
Journal of Systems and Software
Language independent authorship attribution using character level language models
EACL '03 Proceedings of the tenth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 1
Applying Authorship Analysis to Extremist-Group Web Forum Messages
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
From fingerprint to writeprint
Communications of the ACM - Supporting exploratory search
Email alias detection using social network analysis
Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Link discovery
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
A survey of trust and reputation systems for online service provision
Decision Support Systems
Can pseudonymity really guarantee privacy?
SSYM'00 Proceedings of the 9th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 9
Obfuscating document stylometry to preserve author anonymity
COLING-ACL '06 Proceedings of the COLING/ACL on Main conference poster sessions
Identification of Comment Authorship in Anonymous Group Support Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Visualizing authorship for identification
ISI'06 Proceedings of the 4th IEEE international conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
A survey of trust in internet applications
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Text-based video content classification for online video-sharing sites
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Text mining and probabilistic language modeling for online review spam detection
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
Mining writeprints from anonymous e-mails for forensic investigation
Digital Investigation: The International Journal of Digital Forensics & Incident Response
Conversationally-inspired stylometric features for authorship attribution in instant messaging
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Multimedia
A unified data mining solution for authorship analysis in anonymous textual communications
Information Sciences: an International Journal
A Data-Driven Approach to Measure Web Site Navigability
Journal of Management Information Systems
A method of feature selection and sentiment similarity for Chinese micro-blogs
Journal of Information Science
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Online reputation systems are intended to facilitate the propagation of word of mouth as a credibility scoring mechanism for improved trust in electronic marketplaces. However, they experience two problems attributable to anonymity abuse-easy identity changes and reputation manipulation. In this study, we propose the use of stylometric analysis to help identify online traders based on the writing style traces inherent in their posted feedback comments. We incorporated a rich stylistic feature set and developed the Writeprint technique for detection of anonymous trader identities. The technique and extended feature set were evaluated on a test bed encompassing thousands of feedback comments posted by 200 eBay traders. Experiments conducted to assess the scalability (number of traders) and robustness (against intentional obfuscation) of the proposed approach found it to significantly outperform benchmark stylometric techniques. The results indicate that the proposed method may help militate against easy identity changes and reputation manipulation in electronic markets.