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  1. Xref: sparky comp.ai:5099 rec.arts.books:26594 misc.writing:4349 rec.arts.int-fiction:1318
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  3. From: wbdst+@pitt.edu (William B Dwinnell)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.ai,rec.arts.books,misc.writing,rec.arts.int-fiction
  5. Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
  6. Message-ID: <2643@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
  7. Date: 27 Jan 93 18:15:33 GMT
  8. References: <1993Jan25.163029.1901@seas.smu.edu> <XZ2yXB13w165w@west.darkside.com> <C1In86.BMI@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
  9. Sender: news+@pitt.edu
  10. Followup-To: comp.ai
  11. Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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  15. Alan:   I'm not sure I understand your assertion that "This [attempting
  16. to get a program to understand stories] would seem to be the neccessary
  17. leap before a computer were to write a story."  Programming a sentence
  18. generator which produces output which makes sense is a simple matter, yet
  19. such systems do not have to (and generally can't) understand natural
  20. language sentences, not even their own output.  Why couldn't this be
  21. extnded to complete stories?
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