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A professor at the university where I did my undergrad has done research on this topic:

http://www.cs.queensu.ca/home/skill/papers.html

For example, he took the Enron email data set, and applied machine learning techniques to try to distinguish "dishonest" emails where something was being concealed from normal emails. A student of his has applied similar techniques to speeches given by MPs in Parliament (Canadian equivalent of Congress).




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