Re: New Word Generator

* Petr Mejzlík said on 2007-09-29 22:10:31 +0200
> One that could learn automatically would be amazing, but I
> guess that's too far-fetched and really complicated to make.
> OTOH people can get used to a new phonotactics intuitively so
> a computer should be able to do it as well (and it's not about
> meaning so it shouldn't require human knowledge). It would
> have to somehow identify and classify the phonemes with some
> really neat statistical algorithm. Not that I know how to do
> it though.
What you want is a Markov generator. Look up "Markov chain" on
Wikipedia. They are commonly used to make nonsense text and spam
text, though it's a no-brainer to have it learn phonemes instead
of words. Give a Markov-generator some words and it'll output
words that resemble the input. The problem though is how the
quality and quantity of input affects the quality of output; for
conlang word-generation it is important to have enough input, if
necessary by duplicating some words.


t.

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