From rob@twcny.rr.com Fri Mar 15 15:15:04 2002 Return-Path: X-Sender: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: unknown); 15 Mar 2002 23:15:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 38002 invoked from network); 15 Mar 2002 23:15:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 Mar 2002 23:15:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mailout6.nyroc.rr.com) (24.92.226.177) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Mar 2002 23:15:03 -0000 Received: from mail1.twcny.rr.com (mail1-1 [24.92.226.139]) by mailout6.nyroc.rr.com (8.11.6/Road Runner 1.12) with ESMTP id g2FNF2u08476 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:15:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from riff ([24.92.246.4]) by mail1.twcny.rr.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-59787U250000L250000S0V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:15:01 -0500 Received: from rob by riff with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16m0ub-0000UJ-00 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:15:01 -0500 Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:15:01 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] ChomskyBot Message-ID: <20020315231501.GB1859@twcny.rr.com> References: <3C927952.20005@cs.technion.ac.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i X-Is-It-Not-Nifty: www.sluggy.com From: Rob Speer Reply-To: rob@twcny.rr.com X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=2572649 X-Yahoo-Profile: squeekybobo On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:56:50PM -0700, Jay Kominek wrote: > Richard Curnow also has a system under development. > > All of which are quite a bit more complicated than the ChomskyBot. > > (Mine use an algorith from a fellow out of .nz which analyzes the grammar > to determine all the proper weightings so you get sentences of exactly the > length you want. Nora's (the LLG one) just has hard coded weights. Not > sure what Richard's does, though I think he told me at one point.) How hard would it be to modify yours to not use that algorithm? I'd like a random sentence generator that works on Linux, and while yours has a good idea behind it, the output leaves something to be desired. The vast majority of seven-word sentences, for example, consist of seven unrelated cmavo, indicating that weighting really is important. Heck, I'd fiddle around with the weights if I had some way to adjust them. -- la rab.spir noi sarji zo gumri