Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Words That Speak a Thousand Pictures

Posted by timothy on from the high-tech-meets-expired-copyrights dept.

venolius writes: "The New York Times (free registration required) has an article on TextArc (created by W.Bradford Paley), a site that "aids in the discovery of patterns and and concepts in arbitrary text" (from the detailed overview at TextArc). The site serves an applet that performs the task (texts on which analysis is available include Alice in Wonderland, Hamlet, and thousands of others -made available by Project Gutenberg-). The NYTimes article reports that Paley found that "Dracula", which relies on a strong storyline had a few keywords clustered hotly at the center, and that the metaphoric "Frankenstein" generated a circle of 50 words of modest intensity that faded towards the edges. "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" with evenly distributed key words produces tight and round lines and "Alice in Wonderland" produces loopier lines. Check it out! (the applet was tested on better hardware, but I did well enough with 98/IE6/550MHz/64MB)"

9 of 102 comments (clear)

  1. Whatever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Null post

  2. Re:Please... by teddlesruss · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    i agree, it sux that something opens a max window over your desktop without asking permission, chews up cpu without asking permission, and then fscks up as soon as you click on it and has to be killed by hand.


    shame textarc, shame!


    you can be sure whom i'll never consider for anything whatsoever, ever again...

    --
    -- ted russ http://www.arach.net.au/~ted/mydynes/ http://www.arach.net.au/~ted/myblogs/
  3. Re:Comedic Legend "Ozzy" Osbourne, Dead At 52 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Here's a nice mirror.

  4. Wow!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow!! Its a bunch of jumbled words!! Time well spent!!! Good Job Sir!!

  5. Any volentears? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nho, rite iht yerslef.

  6. Re:Analise this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes. There is. yu0=fag0t

  7. Re:Market trends. by Kythorn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Pleeeeeease tell me english isn't your native language.

  8. Re:WHO CARES by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Stick around. In a couple days this story will
    be reposted as a new topic.

  9. i wonder what would happen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If we fed it some /. trolls (like this one). think it would find any patterns relating to goats