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- From: zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (Craig "Powderkeg" DeForest)
- Subject: Re: New Words
- In-Reply-To: rsf1@Ra.MsState.Edu's message of Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:44:28 GMT
- Message-ID: <ZOWIE.92Dec23010625@daedalus.stanford.edu>
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- Organization: Stanford Center for Space Science and Astrophysics
- References: <rsf1.725085868@Ra.MsState.Edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 01:06:25
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- In article <foo> in sci.physics, rsf1@Ra.MsState.Edu writes:
- Got a new concept (like non-chaotic chaos) and can't think up a word
- for it? Here are some new words generated(*) by a schizophrenic Markov
- chain.
-
- accomis actir adilint apide argenic arnic
- aroxide auding audivist barm bartive chandivity
- charide chatory coluted contomic cycleus dion
-
- ...
-
- (*) Brief snippets of scientific text were read by a natural language
- processing (NLP) computer program called BABBLER. (The progam in this
- case was assigned a three-letter attention span.) BABBLER was then allowed
- to generate a "free-association" thought stream. Words in the list above
- were manually extracted from the printed thought stream, a sample of which
- follows:
-
- [deleted]
-
- Sounds like Dissociated Press to me. Emacs, anyone?
- --
- DON'T DRINK SOAP! DILUTE DILUTE! OK!
-