On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Achim Schneider wrote:
Gregory Collins <greg@maptuit.com> wrote:
Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin@btinternet.com> writes:
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/