If you've met Glenda in a chat room, but want to make sure she’s not a Glen before a physical meeting, then help is at hand. A Malaysian boffin has developed text analysis software that, she claims, can distinguish between men and women.
The software analyses the text within an email, and Professor Dianne Cheong Lee Mei claims …
They're just not that accurate. I remember pasting pieces of text into one of these things years ago and having different ones come up different genders.
Strangely, it also says the same about Steve Ballmer after analysing his latest threatening letter to Yahoo! I've never seen him as a Stephanie, but I guess you never know ...
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Boffin builds sex-selecting email analysis software
If you've met Glenda in a chat room, but want to make sure she’s not a Glen before a physical meeting, then help is at hand. A Malaysian boffin has developed text analysis software that, she claims, can distinguish between men and women. The software analyses the text within an email, and Professor Dianne Cheong Lee Mei claims …
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Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 15:59 GMT
Chris
Link needed #
We need a link to a site where we can paste our emails in and find out what sex we are please.
Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 17:31 GMT
Tom
Sex Offender Training Tool #
Great.. just what we need, a tool to help sex offenders train on being feminine to lure girls into a meeting.
Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 17:31 GMT
Joseph Zygnerski
Such tools exist #
They're just not that accurate. I remember pasting pieces of text into one of these things years ago and having different ones come up different genders.
Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 17:31 GMT
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Here's a site that has an algorithm for doing that #
http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php
But it may not be that reliable. I just tested it on Lester Haines' latest piece:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/08/campbell_grounded/
and it says he's a girl.
Strangely, it also says the same about Steve Ballmer after analysing his latest threatening letter to Yahoo! I've never seen him as a Stephanie, but I guess you never know ...
Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 17:31 GMT
leslie
balderdash! ! #
So, if it thinks I'm a woman because of the lack of manly comments in my email, should I be complemented or insulted...
PH, simply because
Posted Tuesday 8th April 2008 22:18 GMT
Steven Raith
"Just what we need...." #
"Great.. just what we need, a tool to help IT blokes train on being feminine to lure women into a date over email."
Corrected ;-)
Steven R
Paris, because she knows all about luring the opposite sex.
Posted Wednesday 9th April 2008 09:06 GMT
Elliott White
Old News #
This has been available for years. Shame Reg isn't doing some basic research before running a puff-piece
http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php
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