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8 million books and 65 million articles later, this AI has found the secret to happiness
The method uses psychological valence norms--values of happiness that can be derived from text--for thousands of words in different languages to compute the relative proportion of positive and negative language for four different nations (the USA, UK, Germany, and Italy). The research team also controlled for the evolution of language, to take into account the fact that some words change their meaning over time.
8 million books and 65 million articles later, this AI has found the secret to happiness
The method uses psychological valence norms--values of happiness that can be derived from text--for thousands of words in different languages to compute the relative proportion of positive and negative language for four different nations (the USA, UK, Germany, and Italy). The research team also controlled for the evolution of language, to take into account the fact that some words change their meaning over time.