Deceptive Publishing Traps

Distinguishing deceptive from non-deceptive speech

To date, studies of deceptive speech have largely been confined to descriptive studies and observations from subjects, researchers, or practitioners, with few empirical studies of the specific lexical or acoustic/prosodic features which may characterize deceptive speech. We present results from a study seeking to distinguish deceptive from non-deceptive speech using machine learning techniques ...

Panel: Publishing high impact IS research in top journals: Tips and traps

Deceptive Games

Deceptive games are games where the reward structure or other aspects of the game are designed to lead the agent away from a globally optimal policy. While many games are already deceptive to some extent, we designed a series of games in the Video Game Description Language (VGDL) implementing specific types of deception, classified by the cognitive biases they exploit. VGDL games can be run in ...

Negative Deceptive Opinion Spam

The rising influence of user-generated online reviews (Cone, 2011) has led to growing incentive for businesses to solicit and manufacture DECEPTIVE OPINION SPAM—fictitious reviews that have been deliberately written to sound authentic and deceive the reader. Recently, Ott et al. (2011) have introduced an opinion spam dataset containing gold standard deceptive positive hotel reviews. However, th...

Multimodal Deceptive Functions

This pap er presents a static analysis of deception in multimodal funct ions. Deception in a bipolar function of unitation (a function with two global optima and a number of decepti ve attractors) is defined, and a set of suffic ient conditions relat ing function values is obtained. A bipolar decept ive function is also constructed from low-order Walsh coeffic ients. Multimodal functions of bou...