This was something I was playing with when parsing news articles for
quotes by people -- one could imagine matching quote fragments of
newspapers against each other and try to find the first instance/source
transcript of the quote.
This doesn't work so well if it's paraphrased, as the case you give,
though... you'd have to have an actual infrastructure site to track
those sort of pledges, like was suggested after the election where the
various petitions/pledges/surveys candidates signed could be collated. I
like the idea of being able to drop into newspaper articles
wikipedia-like flags saying that something needs sourcing or has a source.
-t
On 14/09/12 07:39, Francis Davey wrote:
The "pledge" by David Cameron is much quoted in the news. The lawyer
in me much prefers to say to someone "On such and such an occasion you
said <<quote>>" , but I was unable (with 30 minutes effort) to find
any actual occasion on which he said it.
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