Computational linguistics help uncover government secrets

This article from yesterday’s news talks about a program for revealing blacked-out words in documents. They used it against a memorandum from the USA Dept. of Defense yielding interesting results:

They said that although the name of a country had been blacked out in that memorandum, their software showed that it was highly likely the document named South Korea as having helped the Iraqis.

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