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Graduate Students Work to Help Make Voting Process Easier
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington are working to develop a problem-solving program to enable individuals to rapidly fact-check politicians' claims.
University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) professor Chengkai Li and his team of graduate students are working to enable anyone to rapidly fact-check politicians' claims.
The team is developing a problem-solving program called ClaimBuster, which learns from training data, according to Li.
People participate in data collection by filling out surveys of what they deem worthy of fact-checking and importance. The software analyzes closed captions from political debates and ranks each claim by what has a higher likeliness of needing to be checked. Sentences are scaled by how check-worthy they are by color and number, leaving fact checkers to do the rest, notes Naeemul Hassan, research and development leader for the project.
Number amounts and changes in verb tenses tend to lead to a higher check-worthiness score, Li notes.
UTA professor Mark Tremayne is the co-principle investigator for the project, and discussed using the presidential debates for the project from the beginning, Li says.
The team plans to display a more refined prototype website by April, which will have additional capabilities and features, according to Hassan.
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