Corporate investigators have programs that can sift through e-mail and other electronic documents looking for distinctive wordpatterns, even when employees try to speak in code.
Its overheated wordpatterns and lyrics about a heart standing still and a boy named Bill captivated a generation of lovelorn girls and set the stage for a long series of angst-ridden singles.
We can use computers to analyze the language in these records and find wordpatterns that reveal deception, like whether a hotel review was written by someone who actually stayed at the hotel or not (take a look at the end of the TED talk to see if you can tell which hotel review is fake).