Otto v. Slothrop

[jporter]

>JP, re AI, I've always thought it might be fun to take a work written in
>multiple voices and run them all through one of those
>Gunning-Fogg-Flesch-Whosits style-analysis programs. You know, the kind that
>purport to isolate a writer's syntactic fingerprint via some kind of
>preposition-frequency matrix. Would the author really be disappearing inside
>all his narrators, or would some consistent figure in the carpet still
>remain? Does anybody know more than me, i.e. something, about these
>algorithms?
>Best
>David

I'm an AI neophyte, just beginning to appreciate this area, which seems
well represented on the net. Working back to the author from the
syntactical idio's of his/her characters seems interesting, where have you
heard of this? Can you point me toward any sources?

I'm confident there will be a role for literary geniuses, such as our hero,
in the coming intersection of robotics, molecular biology and computer
science, without whose input, any creations would be lacking at least a
sense of humor, and probably alot more.

Cheers, jp