Male/Female Differences in Writing

A team of computer scientists has developed an algorithm that predicts whether a text has been written by a man or a woman with an 80% probability of success.

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The same technique could also be used to determine whether different racial groups write differently as well. Will anyone try that experiment?

Also note that the authors achieved this result by using only simple features of text, like the frequency of personal pronouns, etc. One wonders how the precision could be augmented by looking at the higher aspects of language, especially at the semantic level.

Posted by Dienekes at July 7, 2003 06:37 PM | PermaLink