From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2009-09-15T08:40:55+09:00
Subject: Re: (Bayesian) Linguistic Analysis

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Jp Hastings-spital
<jphastings@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
>> Well, not exactly a ruby class.  It's  an industrial grade application
>> written in Common Lisp running on distributed cluster computers (plus
>> an Oracle backend database and some Java code for the user interface
>> (including implementing a scheme in Java to let the user customize
>> their processing of the synthesized data)).
>
> Wow! I appreciate your research there - its a bit much for my
> requirements, but linguistic analysis is obviously far deeper than
> counting the occurrences of different words! Fascinating field, I can
> see myself getting lost in it!

This "happiness" finder may be a bit of a unicorn.  Good luck :)

As an example, a poster from ages -- a few years -- ago (for real)
sadly sung a ballad of how he (or she) gave up on trying to understand
sentiment logically through internet groups.  I believe I remember
this happening over some very heated battle/thread on this list.

Actually, his/hers was more of a statement than poetry, but take it
how you want.

I'll admit it would be fun to apply something like that to different
film dialogs.

Todd