Geoffrey Nunberg (Ph.D., Linguistics, C.U.N.Y. 1977) is a
researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and
Information at Stanford University and a Consulting Full
Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. Until 2001, he
was also a principal scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research
Center. His research centers on automated classification
systems, with a focus on classifying documents on the Web with
respect to their linguistic properties. He has published his
research in numerous professional journals, including peer-
reviewed journals.
A "cookie" is "a small file or part of a file stored on a
World Wide Web user's computer, created and subsequently read by
a Web site server, and containing personal information (as a user
identification code, customized preferences, or a record of pages
visited)." Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, available at
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary.htm.
Hunter drew three different "samples" for his test. The
first consisted of "50 randomly generated Web pages from the
Webcrawler search engine." The "second sample of 50 Web pages
was drawn from searches for the terms 'yahoo, warez, hotmail,
sex, and MP3,' using the AltaVista.com search engine." And the
"final sample of 100 Web sites was drawn from the sites of
organizations who filed amicus briefs in support of the ACLU's
challenges to the Community [sic] Decency Act (CDA) and COPA [the
Children's Online Protection Act], and from Internet portals,
political Web sites, feminist Web sites, hate speech sites,
gambling sites, religious sites, gay pride/homosexual sites,
alcohol, tobacco, and drug sites, pornography sites, new sites,
violent game sites, safe sex sites, and pro and anti-abortion
sites listed on the popular Web directory, Yahoo.com."