Parody generator

Parody generators are computer programs which generate text that is syntactically correct, but usually meaningless, often in the style of a technical paper or a particular writer. They are also called travesty generators and random text generators.

Their purpose is often satirical, intending to show that there is little difference between the generated text and real examples.

Many work by using techniques such as Markov chains to reprocess real text examples; alternatively, they may be hand-coded. Generated texts can vary from essay length to paragraphs and tweets. (The term "quote generator" can also be used for software that randomly selects real quotations.)

Further to its esoteric interest, a discussion of parody generation as a useful technique for measuring the success of grammatical inferencing systems is included, along with suggestions for its practical application in areas of language modeling and text compression.

Bibliography

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Examples

• Dissociated press, an implementation of a Markov chaining algorithm
• Postmodernism Generator, generates essays in the style of post-structuralism
• SCIgen, generates nonsensical computer science research papers

See also

• Chatterbot
• Cleverbot
• Filler text, meaningless text used as an example
• Natural language generation
• Paper generator