Friday, October 2, 2009

Another Update: Now even more smarts in the client

We just released another new version of the Dispute Finder Firefox extension.

This one continues further down the path of pushing more smarts into the client. In the previous version we would only highlight a phrase if it was an instance of a known disputed claim. In the new version we use a simple textual entailment algorithm to highlight any phrase that is similar to a known paraphrase of a disputed claim.

The upside of this is that we now highlight much more stuff.

The downside is that we are now more likely to highlight stuff that isn't actually making the disputed claim - but we have plans to make it a lot smarter in the future, no whack down that false positive rate.

Once again, I'm afraid you are going to need to upgrade your extension.