Cornell Language and Technology

exploring how technologies affect the way we talk, think and understand each other

Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Presentation Comments #1

To the gender group:
I really enjoyed your presentation, and hearing your findings. I was amazed that despite the fact that you found so many linguistic differences between men and women, we (as raters) were simply unable to do any better than chance at guessing the gender of the author. I would be really interested to see if, given these linguistic diferences, something like a automated computer program could do better at guessing the gender of the author, as a computer could just focus on these things while we are distracted by so many factors and are unaware of what is truly a difference between men and women's writing styles. Really neat results!

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