Statistics on conversations

[seamusdemora]

I'm interested in adding a new function to baskup that will provide some statistics on the conversations that are archived. For now, the one that's of most interest to me is a statistic that shows how many words each party to a conversation has "contributed". I have a few other ideas, but for now, this meets my needs. And so, for a selected backup file, my proposed function would list the total number of words I have contributed, and the total number of words the other party has contributed.

I've outlined a v. general approach for this; I'll do it in bash and/or awk. My question is this: Does the database from which the text in the backup is made include any data that would make this unnecessary - or aid in the implementation?