The Chomskybot is a program that generates paragraphs which appear similar to those in the corpus of Noam Chomsky's linguistic works, but are humorously devoid of any meaning, by combining at random phrases taken from Chomsky's actual works. The Chomskybot is derived from another program called Foggy, which originally generated "fake" managerese —i.e., the language of business management. The phrases from Chomsky were originally collected by John F. Sowa, the program was redesigned by Anthony Aristar and John Lawler, and the Perl version was written by Kevin McGowan. Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... Avram Noam Chomsky, Ph. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of language. ... Look up Management in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... John Florian Sowa is the computer scientist who invented conceptual graphs, a graphic notation for logic and natural language, based on the structures in semantic networks and on the existential graphs of Charles S. Peirce. ... Anthony Manuel Rodrigues Aristar is the founder of the LINGUIST list, the most important linguistic resource on the web. ...

An example of The Chomskybot's output:

For any transformation which is sufficiently diversified in application to be of any interest, most of the methodological work in modern linguistics is not to be considered in determining a corpus of utterance tokens upon which conformity has been defined by the paired utterance test. By combining adjunctions and certain deformations, the theory of syntactic features developed earlier may remedy and, at the same time, eliminate the system of base rules exclusive of the lexicon. Clearly, the fundamental error of regarding functional notions as categorial is unspecified with respect to an abstract underlying order. Furthermore, the notion of level of grammaticalness is to be regarded as the extended c-command discussed in connection with (34). Presumably, relational information appears to correlate rather closely with the levels of acceptability from fairly high (eg (99a)) to virtual gibberish (eg (98d)).

How it works

Chomskybot operates as follows: it always generates five sentences to a paragraph; each sentence contains a fixed number of parts for all such sentences; for each of the above mentioned parts there are a number of alternatives; it randomly chooses alternatives to so construct sentences and paragraphs; furthermore, the author of the alternatives constructs them in such a way that every possible combination thereof is grammatically correct (although obviously semantically incoherent.) In linguistics, a sentence is a unit of language, characterized in most languages by the presence of a finite verb. ... A pilcrow is used to indicate a paragraph. ... This article is about grammar from a linguistic perspective. ... In general, semantics (from the Greek semantikos, or significant meaning, derived from sema, sign) is the study of meaning, in some sense of that term. ...

See also

• Colorless green ideas sleep furiously

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External links

• Perl Chomskybot
• Perl source code
• Chomskybot FAQ
• John F. Sowa's home page
• Kevin McGowan's home page
• John M. Lawler's home page

See also: chatterbot A chatterbot is a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with one or more human users via auditory or textual methods. ...