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

[Henning Thielemann]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Achim Schneider wrote:

> Gregory Collins <greg at maptuit.com> wrote:
>
> > Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at 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/