Re: Textual analysis

Tim May writes:

Imagine what can be done with word and phrase frequency analysis, with examination of punctuation styles (e.g., some people use _this_ for emphasis while others use *this*), and so on. Entropy measures, etc.

I believe that such programs already exist. They are used to identify unknown authors of famous documents. I believe some of Shakespeare's work was under close scrutiny a number of years ago, as were the Fedaralist papers. There was an article in Byte about three or four years ago all about this kind of technology. Thug