Lingua::EN::Gender version 1.0
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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.