[ale] woof

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote:

> 
> 
> The end to buzzword laiden messages?  Could the threat of this software
> in the hands of investors actually make bigwigs just tell the truth in
> plain english?.....  I can see the headlines "Stock dropped 50% because
> investors believed he was using too many buzzwords to hide something"
> 
> 
>  "Bullfighter," as the software is called, could help investors spot
> troubled companies. Used to test language used by now-bankrupt energy
> trader Enron from 1999 through 2001, Fugere said the program found "it
> got progressively more obscure as they got deeper and deeper into
> trouble.
<<snip>> 

I took a look at the link which works, and am intrigued. Unfortunately, 
"bullfighter" only works with M$ Office. Wouldn't it be possible to adapt 
one of the bayesian spam programs to do much the same thing? Plus 
massaging with one of the old readability programs perhaps?


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