posted on Jul, 4 2013 @ 08:57 AM
Having travelled a great deal over the years and had many laughs with people from all over the world, here is a new piece of software that may
interest some of my American friends....
A great deal of Americans I have met do not get sarcasm, in fact whenever I have said something sarcastic they really believe that what I am saying to
be what I really mean and truthful, rather than the meaning of what I am saying being totally the opposite. Even when I try to explain it to them they
still don't get it, but everybody else around the table is laughing their socks off...
So when I saw this news item for sarcasm software, I straight away thought of some of my American friends and would they be able to benefit from such
a breakthrough in technology, or would it go completely over their heads....hahaha
French company Spotter, has developed an analytics tool that claims to have up to 80% accuracy in identifying sarcastic comments posted online....
Algorithms had been developed to reflect various tones in 29 different languages including Chinese, Russian and Arabic...
The algorithm based analytics software generates reputation reports based on social and traditional media material...
However some experts say such tools are often inadequate because of the nuance of language...
So what do you think? A good or a bad thing?
Do you think it would help any of you guys out there?
www.bbc.co.uk...