SFPC Generative Text Workshop Fall 2015

Allison Parrish

##Session 01

• Poetic text generation: Motivations, concepts, works

Other tools to play around with:

• GenGen
• TextMechanic

Reading:

• L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Lines
• Grep: A Grammar

Exercises:

• UNIX command line exercises

##Session 02

• Processing and generating text on the UNIX command line
• Python: Expressions and strings

Reading:

• Excerpts from Creative Reading
• Berrigan's Sonnets (distributed in class)
• Thus &

Exercises:

• Expressions and strings
• Dictionaries, sets, list comprehensions

##Session 03

• Python: Making decisions about lines
• Python: Lists and loops

Reading:

• Excerpts from Virtual Muse (distributed in class)

##Session 04

• Python: Dictionaries and web APIs
• Text mashups

Reading:

• Jackson Mac Low, Insect Assassins and Call Me Ishmael
• Hartley, G. "Listen" and "Relate": Notes Towards a Reading of Jackson Mac Low

##Session 05

• Python: Functions and modules

##Session 06

• Markov chain text generation (My Python implementation)

##Session 07

• Installing Python Libraries
• Using CMU pronouncing dictionary with pronouncingpy
• Using Corpora project with pycorpora

##Session 08

• TextBlob
• Searching sentences with Pattern
• Context-free grammar text generation (Example code and grammar)