Reminds me of the possibility someone raised (or maybe they were saying
it had already been done on the US congress?) of analysing transcripts
for evidence of correlated speech patterns (e.g. a particular identical
repeated phrase or unusual word across lots of members) as an automated
way of determining which groups are influenced, for example, by lobbying
and perhaps infer some sort of network (say someone using a particular
phrase and then everyone else copying them). Not entirely sure how it'd
be done, but it could be interesting.
Tim
On 04/11/2010 20:12, Owen Blacker wrote:
In case any of you haven't seen this, it's a great use of
TheyWorkForYou in a way I'd never thought of:
http://www.tomscott.com/lords/
It stems from the intensely strange story that Charles Stross blogged
yesterday:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/11/conspiracy-theories.html "Did
somebody just try to buy the British government?". Effectively, Tom
Scott used TWFY as a corpus on which to do lexical analysis of Lords
speeches.
Interesting piece, with interesting visualisation coming out of it.
And the blog comments on Charlie's post are batshit crazyinteresting.
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