I think perhaps the idea is that computers are one way of analysing verbal
material and parsing is another. But we seem to have gotten sidetracked
from the original rquest for information about poetry and psychology? Are
there other sources of information on the question?
tom bell
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From: "Dominic Fox" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: Poetry & Psych
> > Hi Tom
> >
> > I confess I have only scanned the papers. Rebecca has looked at them
> > in more detail, but I do think the problems of this sort of analysis,
> > using computer programs, fairly intractable, and the more especially
> > when talking of highly conscious imaginative verbal activity like
> > writing poetry...
>
> You'd hope so, wouldn't you? In actual fact, statistical analysis of
> patterns of word usage, grammatical idom and so on has been shown to exert
a
> disconcerting degree of traction when it comes to things like determining
> the gender of an author. I can imagine a sort of reverse Turing test,
where
> you have to fool the computer into thinking you're a different gender, or
> not suicidal, or whatever - an interesting exercise...
>
> Dominic
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