Finally, book lovers will no longer suffer the eternal question: where to find another book, which would be similar to their favorite! And fans of the series will no longer suffer the new guest writer messed up their favorite character. A scientist from the University of London wrote a program that reads the text and compares it to pieces in style.
Just swallowed a good book and want to find another one the same? This will help you a new program that will analyze the narrative structure of the novel you read and offer something similar in style.
Software developed by Joseph Reddington of Royal Holloway College, University of London (UK). Reddington and his colleagues have written a program, the principle of which is similar to the work of the editor of a literary work: Compares the text on the basis of frequency of use of certain words and visualize the data. Smart program immediately tell that the different chapters of the novel written by, say, the first and third person, or any part of the narrative is in the present, but some - in the past tense.
It#39;s no secret that today, many literary works are not written by a single author, but to the whole team. The program, created Reddingotnom could help them make the opus even higher quality, with no major stylistic flaws. Joseph Reddington has already tested the software in its own project called TooManyCooks, where several students were to meet for a week and write a collective novel.
As it turned out, the program is not worse than the living eye for the editor, who raised himself from the authors of the general style. Analyzing the work, she draws a tree tipped text fragments. Related parts are on adjacent branches, and passages that do not fit in style, stand apart. Thus in no case shall a value judgment - emphasizes Reddington.
The author notes that the system can be useful novice writers. It will help smooth out the bumps of the narrative, and if desired - to compare his opus with the works of famous authors. Perhaps your novel is like a work of JK Rowling, and it is waiting for the same success? Another potential benefit for the novice writers - pick up a publisher who likes to work in that style, and so do not waste time on endless: Sorry, we do not fit.
Can be a valuable tool for writers. To work on soap operas, for example, often involved several directors. They come and go, but the characters in this series have to speak in the same style, and act according to their nature. Devoted fans of the series are very upset when their favorite hero suddenly ceases to be itself, and often drop out of view. Editor-robot would have helped the film crew to follow the too sharp deviation from the previous script.
As the authors note jokingly about useful invention in the magazine New Scientist, most of such a program would be useful members of the Writers Guild of America. Screenplay by another acclaimed film involved in endless litigation over the one who owed much, and to whom a smaller part of the fee. IN Reddington, analyzing previous work of each of the writers, could easily determine who is likely is the author of a stitch.
Useful program will be presented to the public in October of this year in London, at the international conference devoted to the analysis of data.
