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- From: smithrud@advtech.uswest.com
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- Subject: Re: Analysing Text Re: 18-year-olds at Mt Allison Uni
- Keywords: AI
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.195609.29175@advtech.uswest.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:56:09 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.122100.23651@spider.co.uk> ivan@spider.co.uk (Ivan Reid) writes:
- >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!
- >--
- >Ivan Hans Mark Reid Management Information Systems Analyst
-
-
- [eyes bug out] Ivan, you _can't_ be serious!? I thought the flames
- directed at Mt. Allison were ridiculous enough, but wanting to
- analyze their writing for author authenticity takes the cake. If
- you're just kidding around, nice approach, but if you're serious ...
- this .. oh, gosh, nevermind. I can't even believe anyone would want
- to invest their time doing something so unimportant to most of the
- users in this group anyhow.
-
- Cari
- Boulder, CO
-