I think it is worth adding that the author is not making a simple "machines can never understand Shakespeare" claim, but that the techniques used here are being

I think it is worth adding that the author is not making a simple "machines can never understand Shakespeare" claim, but that the techniques used here are being interpreted beyond what they can achieve. At one point he writes "it may well be that computerized textual analysis will ultimately go beyond treating word frequencies in isolation and will be able to cope with the full range of language. But that time has not come..." The article also quotes Pervez Rizvi, a software engineer who has collaborated with the author in using computers where appropriate, who makes several trenchant criticisms of Taylor's interpretation of computer-generated evidence. Any editor of the New Oxford Shakespeare may make changes without needing the consensus of the others. It now seems to be experiencing some of the problems arising in Wikipedia from that policy.