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- From: mapd1@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nigel Ling)
- Subject: Re: Writing Fiction on Computer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.121338.28998@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Sussex
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:13:38 GMT
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- Subject: Re: Computer writes a book?
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- In article <1993Jan26.145900.1536@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> echristo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Elena A Christofides) writes:
- >Well, it hasn't actually written a book, but....
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- >My husband wrote a program that writes poetry. This program is actually in
- >basic.
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- >In my modern poetry class a while ago, we had to submit up to three poems that
- >were our own original work. Both my poems got A-/B+, whereas the computers poem
- >got an A+!
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- >My instructor was none the wiser at the time - it was a little joke to show
- >that the computer could write a L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poem as good if not better than
- >the language poets themselves!
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- Either that or your instructor didn't know much about poetry :-)
- What's a language poet anyway? Someone who writes bad poetry, dare I
- suggest? :-) :-)
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- Nigel
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