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5. Deceptive Speech: Clues from Spoken Language

Author : Julia Hirschberg

Published in: Speech Technology

Publisher: Springer US

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Abstract

Deception is generally defined as ‘a deliberate attempt to mislead others’ [1]; thus, deceivers are those trying to convince others that something the deceivers know to be false is in fact true. Distinguishing the behavior of deceivers from that of truth-tellers has long been a topic of interest, both to behavioral scientists and to law enforcement personnel. To the latter, research into deception may help to improve human performance in deception detection by pointing out reliable cues to deceptive behavior [2]. However, numerous studies have found that, even when subjects are trained to look for cues highly correlated with deception, many still perform very poorly at deception detection [3, 4]. Alternatively, research into the objectively observable correlates of detection may help us to develop new technologies to identify such behavior automatically, augmenting current technology such as the polygraph as a tool for deception detection.

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Metadata
Title
Deceptive Speech: Clues from Spoken Language
Author
Julia Hirschberg
Copyright Year
2010
Publisher
Springer US
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73819-2_5