They Are Sleuths Who Weigh Prose
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Trying to authenticate documents or uncover forgeries is an increasingly technical pursuit.
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Writers struggling to find a publisher are taking the high-tech, grass-roots approach.
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A few simple keystrokes may soon turn blather into books. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a way to enlist people across the globe to help digitize books every time they solve the simple distorted word puzzles commonly used to register at Web sites or buy things online.
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New search tools include both people and discussion finders.
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Hoping to cut liars off at the pass, the collaborative reference site pulls together a plan to verify contributors' credentials. By the Associated Press.
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In the shadowy world of opposition research and not-for-attribution dossiers, things can get confusing.
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HE firestorm over the memos that figured in the CBS News report on President Bush&#39;s National Guard record featured a parade of expert document examiners who weighed in on font types, proportional spacing and superscripts.
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There's a hidden promise in these results.
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The author and two associates are accused of violating copyright laws.
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They're not obvious, and they're not always cheap.
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Even if they are strictly limited to the use of words, some authors conjure up virtual pictures and exploit the shorthand they provide.
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A new program claims to detect copy theft in any text document.
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Some literary-minded bloggers seemed a little piqued at comments on their hobby made by Doris Lessing in her Nobel lecture this month.
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It's not just students who need to brush up on their writing.
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Maybe it comes of too much exposure to the forensic specialists who slice, sniff, and sort through &quot;CSI&quot; and its serial television variations. But it is apparent that, when building a case, even in a book, a whole body is more informative than a skeleton, and a whole skeleton beats a partial one.
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NEW YORK -- It was an ethics exam in a journalism class, and someone may have cheated.
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Researchers claim to have solved the mystery of the people who simply do not count. It could be because they are lost for words. The Piraha of the Amazon have almost legendary status in language research.