Once you have those features, however, you should be good to go. See Sara Javanmardi's work on wikipedia vandalism detection for some interesting work in this regard (not necessarily mahout-ish). Her page is at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~sjavanma/
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]> wrote: > I guess it depends on what features you want to use to detect those fake > profiles. > > If you want to look at network features of the social graph there is not > much Mahout has to offer currently. We had a patch starting a graph mining > module recently but its only at its very beginning. > > --sebastian > > > > On 21.06.2011 17:37, Neville Agius wrote: > >> I am currently searching an interesting topic for my MSc dissertation in >> Internet Systems. One interesting area is the detection of fake profiles >> or >> fraudulent activities in social networks. Is Mahout good for this purpose? >> And if it is can someone enlighten me with a good place/area to start with >> since I am new to Mahout. Thanks.Neville >> >> >
