on August 31 , 1888 appears
cruelly quartered in the streets
New York the body of a woman
after a few days the police receive a
vindication note with the pseudonym of
jack the ripper the police the days
following continued to receive new
notes and they also continued to produce
new crimes that they carried in the
crime itself the signature of jack the
ripper in November of that same
year there was on the desk of the head of
scotland yard police 150 notes
vindicating some true and others
False the police looked absolutely
unable to process all that
factual information started to follow
up to 5 fake tracks and made five
totally incoherent robot portraits
because the suspects belonged
social classes very different from each other
from a barber to a discharger from
port a teacher of two by a painter
of high society however
in a very short time a teacher in a
very recent article
applying artificial intelligence and
some of the algorithms with which
we work in linguistics to study
the style of the texts got
separate the false notes from the
true and trace the exact profile of
criminal if this could have had it
the police this gentleman would have been good
sir I would have been arrested in very little
time but with those means not
they were able I say to process that
profile information
Bernal distinguishes each one of us
we of the person we have at
side nobody
We talk just like the other
philologists we refer to this as
idiolect everyone we have our
own idiolect and this idiolect us
distinguishes as distinguished by the
fingerprint or distinguish us the DNA
and it does not matter if we try to hide the
idiolect behind an alias or behind
an avatar
it does not matter if we try to imitate the style
from another person because most of
the processes that occur at the time
to elaborate an oral or written speech
they are processes that escape from our
control are non-voluntary processes
I am a professor of literature and in my
years of student there in late
the 70s it became fashionable a theory that
spoke of the death of the author and nothing
less than the one sponsored in Roland
barthes and michel foucault personalities
of absolute respect they had it then
by my schoolmates and
they still have today also by part
mine of the death of the author came to say
that once the text is produced the text
it was there the author disappeared he did not have
and no kind of relevance however
that theory did not convince me
because when I faced the
Reading a book like Don Quixote
avellaneda signed by a pseudonym or
as the guide or as the first act
of the matchmaker behind each word
behind each sentence I was shown the
image of the author is true that he could not
name that image but also
it’s true that it became something
familiar to me I could know it was
that this man who had written
what I had read or what I was
I thought in relation to him you were yourself in
relationship with any other doctrine or
ideology of that time another question
that always came to me was when I
faced with the reading of works
signed by a heteronym for example
works of antonio marched but that
Antonio Machado attributes them to Juan
of Mairena or as the amount of works
by fernando pessoa that attributes to fields
or kings and my question was who is
behind that language Whose
idiolect of the author who created them or of
fictional character that this author had
created and the truth is that in those
moments we did not have the philology not
he had tools to give another
answer that was not the mere hypothesis
or the conjecture
however in 1996 something happened that by
least for me it changed my way of
understand literature and my way of
relate to her that year I was
teaching a doctorate course in the
university of california and it occurred
an important literary event
on the shelves of bookstores
appeared a book entitled primary
colors that
immediately caused a huge impact and that
disappeared with the same speed with
what the trucks were capable of
take them to bookstores around the world
I wanted to read that book what reason it was
what motivated the interest in this
book because this book was about the
last years of Bill Clinton’s term
those where Monica Lewinsky had
an important role
but it was certainly not the morbid thing
unique that turned this book into a
best seller was also the fact that
will appear signed as they see it
you on that cover anonymous the
fact that this book that was about
such a hot topic did not know who
was the author woke up right away the
interest of all newspapers from the
east coast to the west coast and all
they were fighting to see what the
first that I managed to find the name
that was behind that anonymous every
newspaper had its candidate and with
often the candidates of a
newspaper did not match the candidate
from the rival newspaper the problem seemed
irresoluble until a modest
professor donald foster proposes a name
joel klein
and today klein was at that time a
very prestigious columnist of the magazine
newsweek personal friend of bill clinton
that had accompanied him in one of his
last campaigns and he flatly denied
the paternity of that book caused this
many problems to the teacher without
But two years later in 1998 in
an editorial in a small publishing house
from chicago the editor while you’re
moving on the table ordering the
papers and changing from one place to another
the money from papers he had on the
table meets a manuscript that
it’s called prime marico those who carry the
handwritten signature handwritten times
joe klein
how did this teacher come up with this
name so exactly so
using intelligence
of certain algorithms with the
that works style would not know if
there are many in the room who know what
it’s the metrics style, I’m going to define it
and as I define my students the
metrics style comes to be for the
study of literature and for the
study of the language in general comes to
be something like blood tests
for a doctor the blood test at
doctor allows you to have on the table to
when making a diagnosis one
quantifiable objective element and
replicable with which your help can
intuition and your own experience this
is what happens with the metri style to
Spirometry allows us to measure up to
75 different parameters of a text
many of them I insist
they occur in an unconscious and
not voluntary this would be a sample
true of some of the elements that
it measures the style and everything is
it looks like an analysis to an analysis of
blood the spirometry allowed the
philologist’s voice would go out and
that the voice of the philologist will face
with the word in another context
different from the texts and this is very
important because after those dates
to which I have alluded previously
I have worked as an expert linguist
as a philologist expert in cases of harassment
in cases of personality impersonation
in cases of falsification in cases of
plagiarism and I would never have dared to
take that leap from the book to the street without
a reliable and objectifiable tool
as I have just described because
Ultimately if I wrong to
read the quixote cervantes is not going to
protest but if I’m wrong at the time
to pass judgment on a case of
harassment complicates things
and that’s what gave me strength to
undertake beyond the books a
I also work differently in life and
take advantage of the knowledge of
literature to bring them to life and not
I was the only one because as they see the
called murderer of the pomas is a
linguist who the one who stops him in
essence it is a crime the victim
she is a woman whose mobile is stolen
and from the mobile later on
send a whatsapp to different clients
of this woman was enough that a linguist
analyze those whatsapp to see
that simply by placing the
comas those did not belong to this
woman but they belonged to the killer what
same the case of the unabomber a
American terrorist that sent
bomb letters to universities and centers
of aviation, the police
chasing two years did not have any
track
none of the police agencies of
us until a linguist analyzing
the manifesto that I had sent to you
of the newspapers he knew that this man
had studied in chicago that this
man was of a precise age and that this
man was called theodore kaczynski and
so he was immediately arrested
recently in the country just left
this new
the police know with 91 percent yes
our complaint is true or false and
all this based on an analysis in a
linguistic analysis the future of the
philological studies beyond the book
It’s really splendid and I think we
expect a big challenge in particular would be
very good that we had a dictionary
of emotions in Spanish because that
dictionary would allow us something that the
Englishmen can already do and still
We do not know what is for example
diagnose precociously cases of
depression or possible
and in addition to this it can be used in the
policy terrain and has been
employee to elaborate on with the
Autonomous Community of Madrid
programs of the year 2015 and recently
you all remember the news the
September 5 an article appears
anonymous in the ‘new york times’ accusing
to trump then the way to find the author
from that article the fastest way
of course it will be that of philology
the words give us the words
whether we want it or not, even if we try
hide us even if we try to hide
in an avatar they leave what they
we think what we feel what we are
there they have the phrase of the unabomber the
phrase that gave him a phrase that only
a good person better two
only two people in the world could
have pronounced it like that
the author has definitely not died on
author is alive in his writings and the
adventure of discovering it is an adventure
exciting was for me from the
the first day a book fell into my
hands but surely this experience
I share it with most of the room what
what happens is that today my way of reading
has changed let’s say that more has been done
responsible because a word the way
to face myself with the word today not
It may be exactly the same the
word is not only a matter of
aesthetics or a matter of imagination
because in life outside of books the
word compromises our prestige
our honor our money and in
some cases our life many
Thank you
cruelly quartered in the streets
New York the body of a woman
after a few days the police receive a
vindication note with the pseudonym of
jack the ripper the police the days
following continued to receive new
notes and they also continued to produce
new crimes that they carried in the
crime itself the signature of jack the
ripper in November of that same
year there was on the desk of the head of
scotland yard police 150 notes
vindicating some true and others
False the police looked absolutely
unable to process all that
factual information started to follow
up to 5 fake tracks and made five
totally incoherent robot portraits
because the suspects belonged
social classes very different from each other
from a barber to a discharger from
port a teacher of two by a painter
of high society however
in a very short time a teacher in a
very recent article
applying artificial intelligence and
some of the algorithms with which
we work in linguistics to study
the style of the texts got
separate the false notes from the
true and trace the exact profile of
criminal if this could have had it
the police this gentleman would have been good
sir I would have been arrested in very little
time but with those means not
they were able I say to process that
profile information
Bernal distinguishes each one of us
we of the person we have at
side nobody
We talk just like the other
philologists we refer to this as
idiolect everyone we have our
own idiolect and this idiolect us
distinguishes as distinguished by the
fingerprint or distinguish us the DNA
and it does not matter if we try to hide the
idiolect behind an alias or behind
an avatar
it does not matter if we try to imitate the style
from another person because most of
the processes that occur at the time
to elaborate an oral or written speech
they are processes that escape from our
control are non-voluntary processes
I am a professor of literature and in my
years of student there in late
the 70s it became fashionable a theory that
spoke of the death of the author and nothing
less than the one sponsored in Roland
barthes and michel foucault personalities
of absolute respect they had it then
by my schoolmates and
they still have today also by part
mine of the death of the author came to say
that once the text is produced the text
it was there the author disappeared he did not have
and no kind of relevance however
that theory did not convince me
because when I faced the
Reading a book like Don Quixote
avellaneda signed by a pseudonym or
as the guide or as the first act
of the matchmaker behind each word
behind each sentence I was shown the
image of the author is true that he could not
name that image but also
it’s true that it became something
familiar to me I could know it was
that this man who had written
what I had read or what I was
I thought in relation to him you were yourself in
relationship with any other doctrine or
ideology of that time another question
that always came to me was when I
faced with the reading of works
signed by a heteronym for example
works of antonio marched but that
Antonio Machado attributes them to Juan
of Mairena or as the amount of works
by fernando pessoa that attributes to fields
or kings and my question was who is
behind that language Whose
idiolect of the author who created them or of
fictional character that this author had
created and the truth is that in those
moments we did not have the philology not
he had tools to give another
answer that was not the mere hypothesis
or the conjecture
however in 1996 something happened that by
least for me it changed my way of
understand literature and my way of
relate to her that year I was
teaching a doctorate course in the
university of california and it occurred
an important literary event
on the shelves of bookstores
appeared a book entitled primary
colors that
immediately caused a huge impact and that
disappeared with the same speed with
what the trucks were capable of
take them to bookstores around the world
I wanted to read that book what reason it was
what motivated the interest in this
book because this book was about the
last years of Bill Clinton’s term
those where Monica Lewinsky had
an important role
but it was certainly not the morbid thing
unique that turned this book into a
best seller was also the fact that
will appear signed as they see it
you on that cover anonymous the
fact that this book that was about
such a hot topic did not know who
was the author woke up right away the
interest of all newspapers from the
east coast to the west coast and all
they were fighting to see what the
first that I managed to find the name
that was behind that anonymous every
newspaper had its candidate and with
often the candidates of a
newspaper did not match the candidate
from the rival newspaper the problem seemed
irresoluble until a modest
professor donald foster proposes a name
joel klein
and today klein was at that time a
very prestigious columnist of the magazine
newsweek personal friend of bill clinton
that had accompanied him in one of his
last campaigns and he flatly denied
the paternity of that book caused this
many problems to the teacher without
But two years later in 1998 in
an editorial in a small publishing house
from chicago the editor while you’re
moving on the table ordering the
papers and changing from one place to another
the money from papers he had on the
table meets a manuscript that
it’s called prime marico those who carry the
handwritten signature handwritten times
joe klein
how did this teacher come up with this
name so exactly so
using intelligence
of certain algorithms with the
that works style would not know if
there are many in the room who know what
it’s the metrics style, I’m going to define it
and as I define my students the
metrics style comes to be for the
study of literature and for the
study of the language in general comes to
be something like blood tests
for a doctor the blood test at
doctor allows you to have on the table to
when making a diagnosis one
quantifiable objective element and
replicable with which your help can
intuition and your own experience this
is what happens with the metri style to
Spirometry allows us to measure up to
75 different parameters of a text
many of them I insist
they occur in an unconscious and
not voluntary this would be a sample
true of some of the elements that
it measures the style and everything is
it looks like an analysis to an analysis of
blood the spirometry allowed the
philologist’s voice would go out and
that the voice of the philologist will face
with the word in another context
different from the texts and this is very
important because after those dates
to which I have alluded previously
I have worked as an expert linguist
as a philologist expert in cases of harassment
in cases of personality impersonation
in cases of falsification in cases of
plagiarism and I would never have dared to
take that leap from the book to the street without
a reliable and objectifiable tool
as I have just described because
Ultimately if I wrong to
read the quixote cervantes is not going to
protest but if I’m wrong at the time
to pass judgment on a case of
harassment complicates things
and that’s what gave me strength to
undertake beyond the books a
I also work differently in life and
take advantage of the knowledge of
literature to bring them to life and not
I was the only one because as they see the
called murderer of the pomas is a
linguist who the one who stops him in
essence it is a crime the victim
she is a woman whose mobile is stolen
and from the mobile later on
send a whatsapp to different clients
of this woman was enough that a linguist
analyze those whatsapp to see
that simply by placing the
comas those did not belong to this
woman but they belonged to the killer what
same the case of the unabomber a
American terrorist that sent
bomb letters to universities and centers
of aviation, the police
chasing two years did not have any
track
none of the police agencies of
us until a linguist analyzing
the manifesto that I had sent to you
of the newspapers he knew that this man
had studied in chicago that this
man was of a precise age and that this
man was called theodore kaczynski and
so he was immediately arrested
recently in the country just left
this new
the police know with 91 percent yes
our complaint is true or false and
all this based on an analysis in a
linguistic analysis the future of the
philological studies beyond the book
It’s really splendid and I think we
expect a big challenge in particular would be
very good that we had a dictionary
of emotions in Spanish because that
dictionary would allow us something that the
Englishmen can already do and still
We do not know what is for example
diagnose precociously cases of
depression or possible
and in addition to this it can be used in the
policy terrain and has been
employee to elaborate on with the
Autonomous Community of Madrid
programs of the year 2015 and recently
you all remember the news the
September 5 an article appears
anonymous in the ‘new york times’ accusing
to trump then the way to find the author
from that article the fastest way
of course it will be that of philology
the words give us the words
whether we want it or not, even if we try
hide us even if we try to hide
in an avatar they leave what they
we think what we feel what we are
there they have the phrase of the unabomber the
phrase that gave him a phrase that only
a good person better two
only two people in the world could
have pronounced it like that
the author has definitely not died on
author is alive in his writings and the
adventure of discovering it is an adventure
exciting was for me from the
the first day a book fell into my
hands but surely this experience
I share it with most of the room what
what happens is that today my way of reading
has changed let’s say that more has been done
responsible because a word the way
to face myself with the word today not
It may be exactly the same the
word is not only a matter of
aesthetics or a matter of imagination
because in life outside of books the
word compromises our prestige
our honor our money and in
some cases our life many
Thank you
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