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A comment on Spanish police plans to extend use of its lie-detector while efficacy is unclear. Parent comment

Re:Spanish police plans to extend use of its lie-detector wh... by mkl95 on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @06:30AM (#24906034)
"Veripol works by identifying words and phrases that linguistic studies have shown to be identifiers of possible lies, Ms Queralt said. For example, using many adjectives or refusing to describe a scene are considered hints that a complainant is lying."

The article is about a sentiment analysis application used by Spanish police, and how trusting it as a lie detector could be a bit of a stretch. It could be argued that sentiment analysis and related techniques are not 100% bonkers, but it seems to be unclear at the moment.

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Re:Spanish police plans to extend use of its lie-detector wh... by wongarsu on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @07:22AM (#24906340)
From my experience humans currently perform much better at sentiment analysis and related techniques than computers. Computers have the advantage of scale, but this seems like a field where training actual humans on similar techniques would create much better results.
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Re:Spanish police plans to extend use of its lie-detector wh... by corpMaverick on Tuesday October 27, 2020 @10:50AM (#24907950)
In recent years, I have been conditioned so that every time I hear the words "Believe me" I know the persons is lying.
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