Corpus for Homework 2, USC CSCI 544, Spring 2017

Adapted from the Deceptive Opinion Spam Corpus v1.4


This adaptation contains the full text of hotel reviews from the original corpus, together with their truthful/deceptive and positive/negative labels. It does not retain the original directory structure and does not preserve an indication of the hotel names. It adds unique identifiers to the reviews. The adaptation was created by Ron Artstein, artstein@ict.usc.edu , for use in the course CSCI 544 Applied Natural Language Processing at the University of Southern California.


The original corpus can be found at http://myleott.com/op_spam/

The original license applies (see below).

The original readme file follows.


Deceptive Opinion Spam Corpus v1.4
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Overview
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This corpus consists of truthful and deceptive hotel reviews of 20 Chicago
hotels. The data is described in two papers according to the sentiment of the
review. In particular, we discuss positive sentiment reviews in [1] and negative
sentiment reviews in [2].

While we have tried to maintain consistent data preprocessing procedures across
the data, there *are* differences which are explained in more detail in the
associated papers. Please see those papers for specific details.  

This corpus contains:

* 400 truthful positive reviews from TripAdvisor (described in [1])
* 400 deceptive positive reviews from Mechanical Turk (described in [1])
* 400 truthful negative reviews from Expedia, Hotels.com, Orbitz, Priceline,
  TripAdvisor and Yelp (described in [2])
* 400 deceptive negative reviews from Mechanical Turk (described in [2])

Each of the above datasets consist of 20 reviews for each of the 20 most popular
Chicago hotels (see [1] for more details). The files are named according to the
following conventions:

* Directories prefixed with `fold` correspond to a single fold from the
  cross-validation experiments reported in [1] and [2].

* Files are named according to the format `%c_%h_%i.txt`, where:

    * %c denotes the class: (t)ruthful or (d)eceptive

    * %h denotes the hotel:

        * affinia: Affinia Chicago (now MileNorth, A Chicago Hotel)
        * allegro: Hotel Allegro Chicago - a Kimpton Hotel
        * amalfi: Amalfi Hotel Chicago
        * ambassador: Ambassador East Hotel (now PUBLIC Chicago)
        * conrad: Conrad Chicago
        * fairmont: Fairmont Chicago Millennium Park
        * hardrock: Hard Rock Hotel Chicago
        * hilton: Hilton Chicago
        * homewood: Homewood Suites by Hilton Chicago Downtown
        * hyatt: Hyatt Regency Chicago
        * intercontinental: InterContinental Chicago
        * james: James Chicago
        * knickerbocker: Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel Chicago
        * monaco: Hotel Monaco Chicago - a Kimpton Hotel
        * omni: Omni Chicago Hotel
        * palmer: The Palmer House Hilton
        * sheraton: Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers
        * sofitel: Sofitel Chicago Water Tower
        * swissotel: Swissotel Chicago
        * talbott: The Talbott Hotel

    * %i serves as a counter to make the filename unique

Questions
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Please direct questions to Myle Ott (<myleott@cs.cornell.edu>)

References
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[1] M. Ott, Y. Choi, C. Cardie, and J.T. Hancock. 2011. Finding Deceptive
Opinion Spam by Any Stretch of the Imagination. In Proceedings of the 49th
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language
Technologies.

[2] M. Ott, C. Cardie, and J.T. Hancock. 2013. Negative Deceptive Opinion Spam.
In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the
Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies.

License
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If you use any of this data in your work, please cite the appropriate associated
paper (described above).