MEN and women have different writing styles, and a computer program can tell them apart.
Computer scientists at Bar-Ilan University in Israel created a program to identify the gender of an author. After being trained on 566 pieces of fiction and non-fiction it found that men and women use certain different key words more often. Women are more likely to use the words “not”, “wouldn’t,” “couldn’t,” and “shouldn’t” and the prepositions “for” and “with”. Men use “the” and “and” more frequently. Given a new text the program can correctly identify the author’s gender four times out of five. The research…
