Textual analysis
Murdering Thug
thug at phantom.com
Tue Mar 2 15:56:52 PST 1993
Tim May writes:
>Imagine what can be done with word and phrase frequency analysis, with
>examination of punctuation styles (e.g., some people use _this_ for
>emphasis while others use *this*), and so on. Entropy measures, etc.
I believe that such programs already exist. They are used to identify
unknown authors of famous documents. I believe some of Shakespeare's
work was under close scrutiny a number of years ago, as were the
Fedaralist papers.
There was an article in Byte about three or four years ago all about
this kind of technology.
Thug
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