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Review Text as a Leading Indicator of Displayed Reputation in Platform Rating Systems: Evidence from 34 U.S. Short-Term Rental Markets

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arXiv:2504. 14053v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Rating systems on accommodation platforms suffer from a familiar problem: nearly every listing displays a nearly perfect score, so the number that is supposed to separate good listings from bad ones barely varies.

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arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 24

How Much Were You Told? Measuring External Information in Peer Reviews

The paper introduces Self‑Conditioning, an unsupervised, information‑theoretic estimator that measures the amount of external information in peer reviews. It compares the likelihood of a review under its original production context with the likelihood when that context is augmented by hints extracted from the review itself. On the IntelLabs benchmark, Self‑Conditioning can perfectly distinguish fully‑delegated reviews from machine‑polished ones, remains largely insensitive to surface rewriting, and shows that increased external input drives scores toward human‑like values, unlike standard ATD baselines.

By Matthieu Dubois, Pablo Piantanida, Fran\c{c}ois Yvon