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the gray dog soundly sleeps

It was a small research project aimed to find out whether Link Grammar created for natural language parsing could also be used to generate grammatically correct random texts. E.g. a small link grammar like below:

cat dog : AR- & @AD- & V+;

a : ARu+;

the : ARd+;

runs sleeps : V- & { D- };

gray lazy : AD+;

slowly soundly : D+;

generates following texts:

A gray lazy cat runs. The dog soundly sleeps. and so on.

The result was quite disappointing: large NLP grammars used in spell checkers aren’t suitable for the text synthesis. The result didn’t look natural or funny.