Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How would you hack it?

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Achim Schneider wrote:

Gregory Collins wrote:

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Andrew Coppin writes:

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Clearly, what I *should* have done is think more about a good abstraction before writing miles of code. ;-) So how would you guys do this?

If you want text that roughly resembles English, you're better off getting a corpus of real English text and running it through a Markov chain. Mark Dominus has written a few blog posts about this topic recently, see http://blog.plover.com/lang/finnpar.html.

If you run one over obscure academic papers, you can even generate publishable results. I don't have a link ready, but there was a fun incident involving this.

A famous paper generator is http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/