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Table 1 Notations used in Group-Author model

From: Group topic-author model for efficient discovery of latent social astroturfing groups in tourism domain

Notation

Description

N w

The number of words in a review.

N p

The number of products in the dataset.

N u

The number of reviewer in a single product.

G

The number of latent groups.

g

The group assignments for all reviewers.

θ

The G dimension group distribution.

α

The Dirichlet prior for group assignments distributions.

x

A reviewer of a product.

ϕ

Reviewer Distribution associated with a group.

β

The Dirichlet prior for word

l

The sentiment label of a review.

z

The sentiment distribution associated with a group.

π

The Dirichlet prior for sentiment distribution.

w

A word in a review.

γ

Words distribution associated with a sentiment label and a reviewer.

φ

The Dirichlet prior for words distribution.