The Lie Detector: Explorations in the Automatic Recognition of Deceptive Language

In this paper, we present initial experiments in the recognition of deceptive language. We introduce three data sets of true and lying texts collected for this purpose, and we show that automatic classification is a viable technique to distinguish between truth and falsehood as expressed in language. We also introduce a method for class-based feature analysis, which sheds some light on the features that are characteristic for deceptive text. You should not trust the devil, even if he tells the truth.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: ACL
• Authors: Rada Mihalcea, Carlo Strapparava
• Keywords: ACL 2009, Class-based Feature Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Deceptive Language, Lying Texts