ID of anonymous posters via word analysis?
Jason Zions
jazz at hal.com
Wed Nov 3 19:47:34 PST 1993
This brings up the subject of how one can post without
leaving an "ASCII fingerprint". I suspect the use of a spelling
checker and grammatical checker would help. Perhaps running
your text through a language converter, (say English to French)
then back would remove many identifying characteristics.
Two words: "jive"; "valspeak".
Okay, two more: "swedish chef".
Sure, it makes it a little harder to extract semantics from a message, and
it can be hard to keep from giggling at the results, but those lex-based
filters would work much better than some English->French->English translator
program. You'd want to run the results through a reading-level checking
program to make sure you knocked out the 64-dollar words; the size of ones
vocabulary is one of those "identifying characteristics."
Jazz
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