Writing computer programs that make profiles of natural language texts is an interesting thing. It’s not difficult to implement any particular kind of analysis, but there are arbitrarily many ways to analyse something and it’s hard to know what the most interesting thing to analyse would be. I would like to write a computer program that writes computer programs to do the analysis and then figure out what’s most interesting. But I don’t know how to do that and whether that sort of thing
a) has been done
b) is easy to do
So I’m going to study some linguistic programming to see if that helps.
Does anyone else get the feeling that maybe the thing they’d like to study most of all doesn’t exist (yet?)?
