Potentially of interest to Bay Area people: http://berkeley.intel-research.net/?openhouse
I went to a talk today about one of the tools they are developing, the dispute finder plugin: http://disputefinder.cs.berkeley.edu/
it does text mining to find phrases on web pages that are disputed by trusted sources. definitely related to theoretical wikipedia problems :)
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