dadadodo for Debian ------------------- DadaDodo is one of the class of programs known as dissociators, a coin perhaps termed by the amazing Emacs hack, Dissociated Press. DadaDodo works rather differently than Dissociated Press; whereas Dissociated Press (which, incidentally, refers to itself as a travesty generator) simply grabs segments of the body of text and shuffles them, DadaDodo tries to work on a larger scale: it scans bodies of text, and builds a probability tree expressing how frequently word B tends to occur after word A, and various other statistics; then it generates sentences based on those probabilities. The theory here is that, with a large enough corpus, the generated sentences will tend to be grammatically correct, but semantically random: exterminate all rational thought. Sudhakar Chandrasekharan , Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:46:39 -0700