Now computers can pick out the significant words (Image: Benson Kua)
A STATISTICAL method that picks out the most significant words in a book could help scholars decode ancient texts like the – or even messages from aliens.
Humans find it easy to identify the words that capture the theme of a text – for example, that “whale” is a key word in Moby Dick – but this is a difficult task for computers. Now , a systems biologist at the University of Manchester, UK, and colleagues have developed a method to identify word importance based on a branch…
