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DRFact-checking: Humans vs Robots,
Who Will Win?
GEN Summit
Wednesday June 11, 2014
Speaker: Stanislas Motte
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Humans vs. Robots
Do you know a human who can:
• Simultaneously compare articles in 8 different
languages?
• And fact-check over 10,000 articles from 3,000
sources in real time?
• And give the same results whether after lunch or
early in the morning?

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4 Limits of automation vs. manual fact-checking
1. Omission
2. Investigation
3. Intuition
4. Ambiguities of language

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How is it made possible?
Thanks to Natural Language Processing
“Lonely Planet priced at $17-19 on the US market.”
The secret is in the context (the only answer is NLP)

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Where we stand today
No proof – No fact-checking
FIREFOXCHROME

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Where we stand today
No proof – No fact-checking
FIREFOXCHROME

7. 7
Automated fact-checking tomorrow
45%
35%
25%
15%
65%
75%
85%
95%
On 100% of
websites

8. DR
17 humans working for a robot
Launching Summer 2014…
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