Technology and Psycholinguistics
An article in the 25 June issue of New Scientist features a new online gender checking software that uses Psycholinguistic principles to predict a writer's gender with 85% accuracy.
The technology was developed at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey and is able to analyse a sample of text to determine what gender the writer is. The developers say that the software could be used to protect children from online predators who conceal their gender.
The software is based on 157 gender specific psycholinguistic factors such as punctuation style and paragraph length, combined with a Bayesian algorithm to work out the balance of probabilities suggested by these factors.
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