| Challenge: | Existing methods to detect identity fraud are prone to errors and are not based on real data. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a KG constructor and structured dialogue management to detect identity fraud in loan applications to generate questions based on personal information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can detect fraudsters and achieve higher recognition accuracy compared with rule-based systems. |
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