Belief calculation

The Factlink application greatly depends on how good we are in calculating the belief people have in certain facts. This touches a lot of aspects, how will people interact, how do we prevent bias, how do we actually calculate the numbers, etc.

In the following pages (meant to be read sequentially) we explain how the algorithm works, and why we choose this algorithm. This document is meant to be read by developers foremost, and terminology might differ from terminology used in the frontend. The terminology used here is meant to be the one used in the backend. (for instance, we speak of Facts instead of Factlinks, to avoid confusion with Factrelations)

• Belief calculation : Introduction
• Belief calculation : Terminology
• Belief Calculation : Calculating weighted opinions
• Belief Calculation : Calculating weighted opinions with factrelations
• Belief calculation : Calculating authority
• Belief calculation : Defining a Topic

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