Ancestors

Written by Matthew Dockrey on 2025-01-28 at 02:53

I'll need to talk about corpus linguistics in the upcoming Ten Hundred keyboard video, which reminded me of a 1981 book I came across in grad school. It attempts to find personality markers based on some fairly simplistic statistical analysis of people's speech. Not particularly successfully, I think, but I was working on a system to synthesize language with emotional cues and this was one of the only sources of quantitative data I could find. It even spends a chapter analyzing the Watergate transcripts using the same tools! My final project for that class had sliders for how schizophrenic, delusional, depressive, compulsive and Richard Nixon the generated text was supposed to be.

Anyway, a copy just arrived so I can include it in the video.

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Toot

Written by Matthew Dockrey on 2025-01-28 at 02:55

(The book is Verbal Behavior: Adaptation and Psychopathology by Walter Weintraub, btw.)

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Descendants

Written by dr_a on 2025-01-28 at 03:10

@attoparsec i’m now imagining a Futurama Nixon with rabidity controls

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