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On the Lexical Characteristics of Deception

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The use of language reflects the way of people thinking. Some research indicate that, people show significant differences in their cognitive state when they are lying. And the differences further reflect in their external language behaviors, which suggests the possibility of distinguishing truth from deception through verbal cues. Expanding the previous studies which mainly focus on the analysis of fabricated events or facts, in this study, we construct a Chinese opinion-oriented deception corpus. Based on the observation and statistics of different word usages in the deceptive and non-deceptive speech, this paper examined the possible word categories which may serve as cues to distinguish between genuine and deceptive reviews, e.g. the second-person pronouns, direct speech and so on.

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  1. School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Qi Su

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  1. Institute for Infocomm Research , Singapore, Singapore

    Minghui Dong

  2. Nanyang Technological University , Singapore, Singapore

    Jingxia Lin

  3. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

    Xuri Tang

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Su, Q. (2016). On the Lexical Characteristics of Deception. In: Dong, M., Lin, J., Tang, X. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10085. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49508-8_64

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