Explained anomaly detection in text reviews: Can subjective scenarios be correctly evaluated?

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Hauptverfasser: Novoa-Paradela, David, Fontenla-Romero, Oscar, Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha
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author Novoa-Paradela, David
Fontenla-Romero, Oscar
Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha
author_facet Novoa-Paradela, David
Fontenla-Romero, Oscar
Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha
contents This paper presents a pipeline to detect and explain anomalous reviews in online platforms. The pipeline is made up of three modules and allows the detection of reviews that do not generate value for users due to either worthless or malicious composition. The classifications are accompanied by a normality score and an explanation that justifies the decision made. The pipeline's ability to solve the anomaly detection task was evaluated using different datasets created from a large Amazon database. Additionally, a study comparing three explainability techniques involving 241 participants was conducted to assess the explainability module. The study aimed to measure the impact of explanations on the respondents' ability to reproduce the classification model and their perceived usefulness. This work can be useful to automate tasks in review online platforms, such as those for electronic commerce, and offers inspiration for addressing similar problems in the field of anomaly detection in textual data. We also consider it interesting to have carried out a human evaluation of the capacity of different explainability techniques in a real and infrequent scenario such as the detection of anomalous reviews, as well as to reflect on whether it is possible to explain tasks as humanly subjective as this one.
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spellingShingle Explained anomaly detection in text reviews: Can subjective scenarios be correctly evaluated?
Novoa-Paradela, David
Fontenla-Romero, Oscar
Guijarro-Berdiñas, Bertha
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
This paper presents a pipeline to detect and explain anomalous reviews in online platforms. The pipeline is made up of three modules and allows the detection of reviews that do not generate value for users due to either worthless or malicious composition. The classifications are accompanied by a normality score and an explanation that justifies the decision made. The pipeline's ability to solve the anomaly detection task was evaluated using different datasets created from a large Amazon database. Additionally, a study comparing three explainability techniques involving 241 participants was conducted to assess the explainability module. The study aimed to measure the impact of explanations on the respondents' ability to reproduce the classification model and their perceived usefulness. This work can be useful to automate tasks in review online platforms, such as those for electronic commerce, and offers inspiration for addressing similar problems in the field of anomaly detection in textual data. We also consider it interesting to have carried out a human evaluation of the capacity of different explainability techniques in a real and infrequent scenario such as the detection of anomalous reviews, as well as to reflect on whether it is possible to explain tasks as humanly subjective as this one.
title Explained anomaly detection in text reviews: Can subjective scenarios be correctly evaluated?
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04948