Yuval Azoulay
Haaretz
June 22, 2010
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Israeli researchers have developed software that claims to identify depressed bloggers by analyzing their writing.
The program scours blogs for words and phrases, descriptions and metaphors that can indicate the writer’s psychological state.
The software’s initial test run, which was part of a research study headed by Professor Yair Neuman of Ben-Gurion University’s department of education, combed more than 1,000 blog posts written by American bloggers that were online in 2004.
As part of the research, the software was asked to determine what it perceived as the 100 “most depressed” bloggers and the 100 “least depressed.”
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