The lie detector

Published 1 January 2009Open access

Rada Mihalcea, Carlo Strapparava

Citations339

TL;DR

It is shown that automatic classification is a viable technique to distinguish between truth and falsehood as expressed in language and a method for class-based feature analysis is introduced, which sheds some light on the features that are characteristic for deceptive text.

Abstract

In this paper, we present initial experiments in the recognition of deceptive language. We introduce three data sets of true and lying texts collected for this purpose, and we show that automatic classification is a viable technique to distinguish between truth and falsehood as expressed in language. We also introduce a method for class-based feature analysis, which sheds some light on the features that are characteristic for deceptive text.

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