The Language of Deception: Applying Findings on Opinion Spam to Legal and Forensic Discourses

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

line 20: separate al. from highlighted

line 39: the author/s refer to examples, when only  the  Gilroy Garlic Festival is mentioned.

line 259: delete one of the peridios after al. and add reference

Author Response

- line 20: separate al. from highlighted
=> Good point, error in the LaTex code, corrected everywhere (line 20 and 259 and the others).
- line 39: the author/s refer to examples , when only the Gilroy Garlic Festival is mentioned.
=> Changed: " The example mentioned above demonstrates how written information can be employed to influence public opinion and impact the outcome of important events."
- line 259: delete one of the peridios after al. and add reference
=> Fixed (everywhere, because this error appeared everywhere)

Reviewer 2 Report

The article deals with an innovative topic: deceptive opinion spam analysis to detect and identify forms of deceptive online content, especially in forensic investigations.

To achieve this goal, it draws on  real-world dataset from the Enron Email Corpus. The results show the importance of this tool in identifying and analyzing deceptive behavior in online communication. The references are up-to-date and appropriate to the research objective. The quantitative and qualitative analysis method used is consistent with the proposal of the research.

This paper should be published in its actual form.

Author Response

Thanks for your comments