Reviews in Perspective

Fake Reviews: The Malicious Perspective

Product reviews have been the focus of numerous research efforts. In particular, the problem of identifying fake reviews has recently attracted significant interest. Writing fake reviews is a form of attack, performed to purposefully harm or boost an item’s reputation. The effective identification of such reviews is a fundamental problem that affects the performance of virtually every applicati...

Experiences Conducting Systematic Reviews from Novices' Perspective

Background: A systematic review (SR) is a sound methodology for collecting evidence on a research topic of interest and establishing the context of future research. Unlike ordinary or even expert literature reviews, SRs are systematic thus increasing the confidence in the findings from the previous published literature. SRs can be carried out by both experienced and novice researchers; however,...

REVIEWS

Book Reviews: Advances in Natural Language Generation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

expression or syntactic rule in one there is a corresponding expression or syntactic rule in the other with the same meaning. Rosetta differs from the strict Montague model in making no use of intensional logic or of categorial grammar, but it adheres to the compositionality principle (in relating syntactic rules and semantic structures). The paper includes many formal proofs and only trivial s...

Worldwide inequality in production of systematic reviews

Background: Investment in science is vital for the development and well-being of societies. This study aims to assess the scientific productivity of countries by quantifying their publication of systematic reviews taking the gross national income per capita (GNIPC) into account. Methods: Medline and ISI Web of Science were searched for systematic reviews published between 1st January 2006 an...