Lingua::EN::Gender version 1.0 ============================== Lingua::EN::Gender implements the Koppel-Argamon algorithm for guessing an author's gender. The algorithm was invented by Moshe Koppel (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) and Shlomo Argamon (Illinois Institute of Technology), and is described at: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/10/magazine/10wwln-test.html I first learned of this algorithm at: http://www.bookblog.net/gender/genie.html gender.pl is a script for guessing the gender of a file's author. For details, do: perldoc gender.pl INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install SAMPLE TEXTS The samples directory contains the following book excerpts, thanks to Project Gutenberg: Bronte, Charlotte Jane Eyre Chapter 2 [eBook #1260] Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities Chapter 1 [Etext # 98] Melville, Herman Moby Dick; or The Whale Chapter 1 [Etext #2701] Sands, George W. Mazelli, and Other Poems Preface [Etext #2008] Twain, Marc Extracts From Adam's Diary complete [Etext #1892] See samples/README.PG for more information about Project Gutenberg. COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2003 Blue Oxen Associates. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.