Who Do You Write Like

According to the article linked above, it's mostly about word choice. It's a spam filter, basically, comparing the words you use to the words certain authors use and returning the best match.

I know what they're claiming it does. It's just that based on its pathetic performance, I suspected they were cheating and using some quasi-random method of picking an author. But now I think they might actually be using some generic analysis program, badly trained with a ridiculously small selection of authors which would appeal to the average internet geek.

...which is probably even lamer than if they had simply cheated.

So, I found an interview with the author. He openly admits to not having the faintest clue of what he's doing, which I find kind of endearing.

This must be like hitting the jackpot in lotto.

I'll agree with you after using the contents of a couple of reports written in the passive past tense. I write like Dan Brown and Jane Austen - WFT. I Asked my hubby and he said there was no way it could tokenise the strings, parse the content. map the syntactic structure and lots of other stuff I didn't get some of it involving Genetic algorithms. Sad thing is - how many muppets will think their next magnus opus will make then the next Dan Brown. Cluttering up the bookshelves with yet more shite. BTW this comment is in the style of James Joyce