Fact Checking or Psycholinguistics: How to Distinguish Fake and True Claims? (D19-66)
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| Challenge: | Using psycholinguistic features to distinguish lies from true statements is a difficult task and a problem to be solved. |
| Approach: | They compare psycholinguistic text features with fact checking approaches to distinguish lies from true statements using data from a large ongoing study. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods outperform both fact checking and human baselines but the accuracy is not high. |
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