Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 423.
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[1] From: Norman Hinton <hinton_at_springnet1.com> (6)
Subject: Re: 18.418 text-analysis in the news
[2] From: Pat Galloway <galloway_at_ischool.utexas.edu> (10)
Subject: Re: 18.418 text-analysis in the news
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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:10:32 +0000
From: Norman Hinton <hinton_at_springnet1.com>
Subject: Re: 18.418 text-analysis in the news
Willard, while they were studying Iris Murdoch's last novel, did they take
into consideration changes made by copy editors and the like ? Or of that
last run-through in which a publisher may try to get the author to re-write
(often quickly, under extreme time pressure) to make the gathers come out
right and save money ? There is no guarantee that any particular
grammatical complexity is the work of the author, or even vice versa.
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Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:12:00 +0000
From: Pat Galloway <galloway_at_ischool.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: 18.418 text-analysis in the news
I wondered first why nobody at UCL working in neuroscience knew anything
about ALLC or the broad range of linguistic computing activities that have
been going on in various London colleges time out of mind, as it were. Then
I wondered whether the "experts" were aware of the Nun Study being carried
out in the US (since 1986) where the very point is that they have virtually
life-long (from postulant stage) longitudinal samples of prose writing by
teaching nuns (http://www.mc.uky.edu/nunnet/faq.htm) who then donate their
brains for positive disgnosis after death. Google (for all its failings)
tells me that many others made that latter connection at once.
Pat Galloway
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