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- From: ivan@spider.co.uk (Ivan Reid)
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- Subject: Analysing Text Re: 18-year-olds at Mt Allison Uni
- Summary: Prose analysis
- Keywords: AI
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.122100.23651@spider.co.uk>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 12:21:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.221643.21984@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <1jlsdhINN5i7@sauna.cs.hut.fi> <1993Jan21.221552.24481@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
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- Several people seem to doubt the authenticity of the mta@ca logins/postings.
- Why not analyse postings from the logins in question and try to see if they
- are written by the same person? I studied Linguistics here in Edinburgh -
- one of our modules was in prose analysis/machine translation - analysing
- prose to >help< determine authorship is fascinating, and not too hard to do.
-
- Unfortunately, I need a decent sized corpus from each mta@ca poster, the
- bigger the better (ooerr!). If someone who has saved their postings so far
- could forward them to me, and the mta@ca people each cared to write me with
- some blurb about the same topic, say "My Social and Academic life at Mt.
- Alison", I'll dig up my old undergrad project code and post my findings in a
- week or two (work prevents speedy turnaround).
-
- Regards!
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- Ivan Hans Mark Reid Management Information Systems Analyst
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