The Genre Selector - A Perspective from a Computational Linguist

... or: why is most of my F-List suddenly male?

First of all, thanks hutta fro providing this thought-provoking little toy.

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You may scream now: but what on earth QUALIFIES her to extemporise on that tool? And why does she get so ticked off at people taking it seriously? Simple, folks: I'm one of the people cited in the Koppel et al. paper. It's a nice paper, by the way. Technically solid, as far as I can tell.

Meme

from loupnoir, slightly modified:

Tell me about you. Where are you from, what do you do, what keeps you going? What are your goals/dreams/ambitions? What do you believe in?