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

Gregory Collins wrote:

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. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited.