On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Henning Thielemann wrote:
Sounds like a generator for scientific articles. :-) Maybe http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/markov-chain can be of help for you. It's also free of randomIO.
That certainly looks interesting. Presumably if I train it right, it'll figure out that sentences need to start uppercase and end with a full-stop, and maybe have a few other punctuation marks thrown in.
If you use different encodings for periods for abbreviations and sentence ends, this is warranted.
I'm not sure I trust it to generate valid LaTeX markup, but I can give it a try! ;-)
You may not want to construct a Markov Chain for characters but for larger objects, say words and LaTeX commands. However when it comes to correct parentheses, a Markov Chain might not be the appropriate tool, but a grammar.