After reading \u201cAlien Reading: Text-Mining, Language Standardization and the Humanities\u201d, I was more aware of how hard it is to fully understand the written word, especially when you are a computer trying to read and synthesize the information in the text. Just as the article stated, computers \u201ctend to privilege the informational over the aesthetic dimensions of language; and they primarily consist of prose\u201d which makes it extremely difficult to be able to fully automate the understanding of a text. For text-mining, for example, technical and informational genres suit the task better as they are easier to understand compared to multiple types of writing at once. This topic was really interesting to me as an english major because my main line of work, currently, is to connect with writers and readers by written communication, whether that be my own writing or reading someone else\u2019s. To have that connection be something that a computer can\u2019t always fully automate is both wildly interesting and powerful, and honestly comforting. I am happy that the written word cannot be so easily understood. I am happy that it takes more than a software to understand humans and their written thoughts. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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