I-Corps Team: ClaimBuster: Automated, Live Fact-Checking

新形式的技术和媒体使虚假信息的传播比以往任何时候都更容易，这可能对商业、金融部门、科学等领域产生不利后果。因此，事实核查对于加强问责制、改善话语和尽量减少社会经济中断至关重要。一个关键的挑战是，鉴于新的通信形式，人类事实核查人员难以跟上迅速出现的虚假数据和信息。这个I-Corps团队的目标是将ClaimBuster商业化，这是一个自动化的实时事实核查系统，可以发现索赔，将它们与已经经过专业人员核查的索赔进行匹配，并且，对于尚未核查的新索赔，提供相关数据分析以帮助检查其有效性。团队吗?S技术利用了数据库、数据和文本挖掘、机器学习等方面的最新研究进展。通过参加I-Corps团队项目，团队？S的目标是清楚地确定目标客户和他们的需求，这将使团队准备一个可行的商业化计划，并进一步开发必要的组件来部署他们的技术。

New forms of technology and media have made it easier than ever to disseminate false information, which can have adverse consequences on businesses, the financial sector, science, and beyond. Fact-checking is thus critically important to increase accountability, improve discourse, and minimize socioeconomic disruptions. A key challenge is that, in light of the new forms of communications, human fact-checkers have difficulty keeping up with rapidly emerging false data and information. This I-Corps team aims to commercialize ClaimBuster, an automated, live fact-checking system that finds claims, matches them with claims that have already been checked by professionals, and, for new claims not yet checked, provides analysis of relevant data to help check their validity. The team?s technology leverages novel research advances in databases, data and text mining, machine learning, etc. By participating in the I-Corps Teams program, the team?s goal is to clearly identify target customers and their needs, which will enable the team to prepare a viable commercialization plan and further develop necessary components for deploying their technology.