Category: Natural Language Processing

  • Why Computers (and Doctors) Need Narratology

    Why Computers (and Doctors) Need Narratology

    The analysis by Peter Kramer @PeterDKramer in the New York Times story “Why Doctors Need Stories” points, in part, to the challenge faced by clinical decision support systems (CDSS) — and the use of artificial intelligence in health care more generally. While CDSS adoption lags far behind its apparent value, it is true that CDSS is weak…

  • Celebrity’s Anonymous Pen Name ‘Outted’ by Software

    Celebrity’s Anonymous Pen Name ‘Outted’ by Software

    The role that software plays in stylistic analysis of text is perhaps less surprising to high school and college students than to the general public. The former must submit essays they write to style analysis performed by software which looks for plagiarism and sometimes also makes quality assessments. In the recent outing of J.K. Rowling…