Canadian researchers are developing a tool to detect the amount of spin politicians use in their political campaigning.
According to their site, the tool is being developed to analyse the volume of words in a speech that would indicate that the speaker was insincere in the speech regarding their true feelings on the topic.
Words such as “however” and “unless” as well as pronouns in the first person are measured in order to gain an insight into the amount of spin in each passage of a speech or text.
Judging from the increasing press that this project is getting, it is easy to see that there could be a real demand for this service.
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