Computers Taught to Sort Opinion from Fact
No kidding… from UPI :
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is funding a research project designed to teach computers to scan text and then sort opinion from fact.
The project involves Cornell University Professor of Computer Science Claire Cardie and associate professors of computer science Janyce Wiebe of the University of Pittsburgh and Ellen Riloff of the University of Utah.
Of course, there's still quite a few bugs to work out. When they tried using the computer to scan the DNC website, or the front page of the New York Times, the program simply didn't work. There were too many opinions and not enough facts. Go figure?