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Published online 22 January 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020121-2
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Algorithm makes tongue tree
New computer programme could settle literary debates.
To date, unlike us, computers have struggled to differentiate a page of Jane Austen from one by Jackie Collins. Now researchers in Italy have developed a program that can spot enough subtle differences between two authors' works to attribute authorship1.
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