Detecting Dementia Using Lexical Analysis: Terry Pratchett's Discworld
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Re: Detecting Dementia Using Lexical Analysis: Terry Pratchett's Discworld
#2I can't help but feel this is a useful analysis for humanity, but somehow saddening for a fan of the person being analyzed. Almost overly invasive.
Would Sir Terry have appreciated or approved of this?
Re: Detecting Dementia Using Lexical Analysis: Terry Pratchett's Discworld
#3Now everybody just needs to amass a corpus of 40+ beloved fantasy novels and we will finally have a dementia early warning system.
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#4Loved the paper. Would like to try to reproduce it with intelectual political leadership soon.
Re: Detecting Dementia Using Lexical Analysis: Terry Pratchett's Discworld
#5I can't help but feel this is a useful analysis for humanity, but somehow saddening for a fan of the person being analyzed. Almost overly invasive. Would Sir Terry have appreciated or approved of this?
Didn't the Oblivion NPC he contribute to get a bunch of features to help him deal with the problems he faced playing the game? I never met the man, but I think he'd be appreciative of the studies if they help people who suffer from dementia and/or Alzheimer’s.
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#6I hope they've controlled it for an increasing proportion of the later books being aimed at Young Adult audiences...
(Though I guess that cuts both ways and you could argue that writing more simply using the established parts of your legendarium is exactly what you might aim for if you were less consistently able to handle complex plot threads and novel worldbuilding)
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#7Loved the paper. Would like to try to reproduce it with intelectual political leadership soon.
The US has some candidates for your research
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Re: Detecting Dementia Using Lexical Analysis: Terry Pratchett's Discworld
#8Loved the paper. Would like to try to reproduce it with intelectual political leadership soon.
Politicians have speechwriters, though, so you wouldn't be analyzing who you think you're analyzing.
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#9Loved the paper. Would like to try to reproduce it with intelectual political leadership soon.
Politicians have speechwriters, though, so you wouldn't be analyzing who you think you're analyzing.
Yeah, but some actually do write most their own words for the most part. It would require some critical analysis for each individual for sure.
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#10A man is not dead while his name is still spoken. GNU Terry Pratchett.