Algorithm Writes People’s Life Histories Using Twitter Stream - If you tweet about your life, a new algorithm can identify your most significant events and assemble them into an accurate life history, say the computer scientists who built it. [What would FB say about your beliefs, habits, ...!] Twitter [FB] allows anyone to describe their life in unprecedented detail. Many accounts provide an ongoing commentary of an individual’s interests, activities and opinions. So it’s not hard to imagine that it’s possible to reconstruct a person’s life history by analysing their Twitter [FB] stream. But doing this automatically is trickier than it sounds. That’s because most Twitter [FB] streams contain news of important events mixed up with entirely trivial details about events of little or no significance. The difficulty is in telling these apart.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:06:29 +0000
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