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Sep 18 2008 10:17am EDT

The Spread of Lie-Detecting Software: Now It's Political

Kevin Maney straight-talks: It looks like a raging trend -- researchers are increasingly finding ways to use software to detect lies and spin in different scenarios.


In the past couple of months, I've written about a Duke University researcher who's experimenting with detecting lies in corporate earnings conference calls, and a Web tool called SpinSpotter that supposedly can spot spin in news stories.

Now we have a Canadian mathematician who is messing around with software that can analyze words used in political speeches to rate the amount of spin. He thinks Obama spins more than McCain.

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