Attribution and Misattribution: On Computational Linguistics, Heresy and Journalism
Prof. Moshe Koppel is on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Bar-Ilan University. He has published extensively on authorship attribution, as well as on a diverse array of topics of Jewish and scientific interest. A few days ago, newspaper readers from New Jersey to New Zealand read about new computer software that “sheds light on the authorship of the Bible” . By the time the news circled back to Israel, farteitcht and farbessert, readers of Haaretz were (rather…