What is disputed on the web?
Published 27 April 2010
Rob Ennals, Dan Byler, John Mark Agosta, Barbara Rosario
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A method for automatically acquiring a corpus of disputed claims from the web by searching the web for patterns such as "falsely claimed that X" and then using a statistical classifier to select text that appears to be making a disputed claim.
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We present a method for automatically acquiring of a corpus of disputed claims from the web. We consider a factual claim to be disputed if a page on the web suggests both that the claim is false and also that other people say it is true.
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