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- From: bterry@mta.ca
- Newsgroups: soc.penpals
- Subject: Re: Analysing Text Re: 18-year-olds at Mt Allison Uni
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.205114.15233@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:51:14 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.221643.21984@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> <1jlsdhINN5i7@sauna.cs.hut.fi> <1993Jan21.221552.24481@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>,<1993Jan26.122100.23651@spider.co.uk>
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- Reply-To: bterry@mta.ca
- Organization: Mount Allison U, Sackville, N.B. Canada
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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
- >"Information is Power ..." Spider Systems Ltd
- >vox: (+44 31) 554 9424 Spider Park, Stanwell St
- >fax: (+44 31) 554 0649 Edinburgh EH6 5NG, SCOTLAND
-
- Wouldn't just looking it up in some kind of university catalog be much simpler?
- I assure you this place is QUITE real -- or else I've been paying thousands of
- dollars to a figment of my imagination..... 8)
-