"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." It"s a classic quote from the film Casablanca , but can a computer 1 the magic of such classic lines
Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil and colleagues at Cornell University have taught a computer to 2 classic quotes with an accuracy 3 that of mankind. It means computers might one day help fill 4 test their latest classic lines.
The Cornell team collected quotes from the Internet Movie Database, which contains a list of lines flagged by users as deserving to be 5 . The context 6 a line is uttered can make a quote more notable, 7 as a control, the team paired each classic quote with an ordinary one from the 8 context. It was the same 9 and spoken by the same character at around the same point in the fill.
The computer analysed the pairs of quotes—around 2200 in total—for language 10 , unusual words, and word combinations.
The computer 11 to recognize several characteristics 12 to the classic quotes, creating a model that could help find them. "The phrases contain 13 combinations of words, but at the same time they have a sentence structure that is common, so they are 14 to use," says Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil.
The analysis also showed that classic lines often have a(n) 15 : they can be widely used because they don"t contain words that 16 them to a specific context.
The model was able to 17 between classic and ordinary quotes with 64 percent accuracy. 18 scored 78 percent.
The team 19 that political candidates could use the model to assess their 20 .