NLP in a post-truth world

Robert Dale*

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Abstract

We live in a post-truth world. It now matters more whether people think something is true than whether something really is true. This is dangerous, and technology is at least partly to blame. So, as technologists, how can we help to fix this?

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)319-324
Number of pages6
JournalNatural Language Engineering
Volume23
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2017
Externally publishedYes

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