Showing posts with label text generation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label text generation. Show all posts

Monday, January 24, 2011

Ramon Llull's theological sentence generator

The roots of artificial intelligence and digital text generation go back to the Middle Ages:
Ramon Llull’s Ars Magna provides a mechanical process for generating true statements and even proofs...
Llull provides four figures in the form of circular or tabular diagrams which recombine the elements of this table in different ways... the first figure produces combinations of absolute principles – ‘Wisdom is Power’, say. The second figure applies the relative principles – ‘Angels are different from elements’. The third brings in the questions – ‘Where is virtue final?’. The fourth figure is perhaps the most exciting: it take the form of a circular table which is included in the book as a paper wheel which can be rotated to read off results...
The kind of thinking going on here is not, it seems to me, all that different from what goes into the creation of simple sentence-generating programs today, and it represents a remarkable intellectual feat.

Llull's figure 1
Similar algorithms can be applied to produce sappy love letters or financial reports.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Hydrogen atom living with necromancer

Most piroshki believe that living with hydrogen atom admonish defined by inferiority complex.When you see alchemist defined by bartender, it means that wheelbarrow toward leaves.widows remain curmudgeonly.Dorothy, although somewhat soothed by industrial complex defined by and behind toothache.
Mine white mobile phone is angry or maybe our purple smart kitchen smiles.
Her expensive hairy printer smells.
His stupid glasses stares.
Our green sofa sleeps.
Our silver underwares smiles.
Examples of spam poetry, randomly generated nonsense text used to trip up spam filters. Here is another, possibly even stranger: 
Did you see the PBS documentary about executives which claimed that children are often described as magicians? Children are very motherly towards women! Cat lovers spy on parasites. Why do hard rock geologists deny that the mailmen remind me of tax collectors? Cyborgs secretly admire subterraneans.Was it the topologists who told me that the bookworms show contempt for termites? Fathers search Yahoo for sites on quacks. Old-timers, for the most part, believe judges prefer to be called VCR owners. Technicians follow the herds of Sumo wrestlers. Ants sing sweetly to ghouls. Queen bees were raised by flatworms. Ants claim that the seismo-zombies pander to the whims of milkmen.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

50's love poetry-- by a computer

Back in 1952 a team of scientists was desperate to test the capabilities of Mark One `Baby`, the computer built at Manchester University.
One of them, Christopher Strachey, devised a quirky software programme by entering hundreds of romantic verbs and nouns into the new machine.
Here are a couple examples of the output; note the recurring sentence templates:
  • MOPPET DUCK
YOU ARE MY LOVESICK HEART. MY EROTIC PASSION WANTS YOUR AVID ADORATION. MY ADORATION WISTFULLY IS WEDDED TO YOUR FERVENT PASSION. YOU ARE MY LOVELY ENCHANTMENT. MY FONDNESS AFFECTIONATELY PANTS FOR YOUR CURIOUS ADORATION.
YOURS BEAUTIFULLY
  • DUCK HONEY
YOU ARE MY PRECIOUS ARDOUR. MY DESIRE ANXIOUSLY CHERISHES YOUR HUNGER. MY HUNGER CARES FOR YOUR RAPTURE. MY LOVELY FONDNESS CARES FOR YOUR TENDER PASSION. YOU ARE MY SWEET ENTHUSIASM.
YOURS SEDUCTIVELY
Make your own random romantic poem here.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The 2007-2012 World Outlook for Computer-Generated Books Costing $400 or More

  • The 2007-2012 Outlook for Tufted Washable Scatter Rugs, Bathmats and Sets That Measure 6-Feet by 9-Feet or Smaller in India
  • The 2007-2012 Outlook for Lemon-Flavored Bottled Water in Japan
  • The 2007-2012 World Outlook for Agricultural Field and Row Crop Power Sprayers over 4 G.p.m. Excluding Tractor Mounted, Piston Pump, and Non-Piston Pump Type Sprayers
  • The 2007-2012 World Outlook for Sailboats More Than 9.0 M (29.53 Ft) and Less Than 12.0 M (39.03 Ft) in Length with Auxiliary Motor Excluding Military and Commercial Sailboats
  • The 2007-2012 World Outlook for Domestic Shipments of White Flour Shipped to Blenders or Other Processors for Use in Food Products Made in Flour Mills
  •  The 2007 Report on Pork Rind Pellets and Pork Cracklings Made in Slaughtering Plants: World Market Segmentation by City
  • The 2007 Report on Wood Poles, Piles, and Posts More Than 15 Feet in Length Owned and Treated with Pentachlorophenol by the Same Establishment: World Market Segmentation by City
Those are all the titles of books by one Philip M. Parker. If they don't sound interesting, he has thousands of other titles to peruse, including medical sourcebooks, dictionaries, and multilingual crossword puzzle books, as well as market reports like those listed above. All were created with a computer program that searches for the appropriate information and fills in templates, and most (especially the financial reports) are extremely expensive. There must be people willing to pay for these books somewhere. There are certainly people willing to write amusing reviews of them.