Wednesday, November 30, 2011

False claim checker

Fact checking articles against the Politifact database: a moderately breathless article [truth goggles?] gets listed on HNN, of course, but then turns up at LanguageLog as well, leading to a reference to the failed commercial venture Spinoculars (nothing to do with this research, just a general similarity in goals).

Consensus seems to be that it's still a neat idea, and still probably impossible to do without being rather brittle. The research project appears to be using keywords to reference particular claims, which is really not a bad start.

There's just a boatload of things you could do in this arena.

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