My crude sentence generator

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01-04-2012
jeremy duncan

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My crude sentence generator

Hi, I made a word generator that got a random word from a list of words, and that seemed to work ok.
Then i updated my word list and started to generate sentences, but these sentences aren't in a line like a real sentence,
but are in a stack of four words placed below 4 percentages.
Then I use the percentages to guess which of the four words best matches the intention the sentence was trying to convey.

So a lot of guessing.

Obviously the stacked four words aren't going to read like a read sentence, they are like slang in a sense in that they aren't a formal english sentence.
i did this for my chat-bot project which I left and thought how hard it would be for somebody else to do this so I went and did it and am now giving it to you or whomever for their chat-bot project.

So enough of the introduction I will now show you an example of the program running so you can read the output yourself and see if it makes and sense.

Code:

Input a sentence. Press Enter when done. German authorities apparently use silent SMS to create a movement profile of sus pects or locate their position. SMS pings are received by a cellphone, but the u ser will not be notified of it. However, the cellphone carrier will record the d ata in a log, which can be requested by the government. While the data do not pr ovide information about the phone, they do deliver location data via the cell to wers that were used when the silent SMS was sent. __________________ __________________ An input sentence is converted to lower case: __________________ german authorities apparently use silent sms to create a movement profile of sus pects or locate their position. __________________ The secret message in the sentence: __________________ german authorities apparently use silent sms to create movement profile suspects locate their position The last word is: position __________________ Analysis part one: __________________ letter vowel letter 0.571429 letter vowel vowel 0.214286 vowel vowel letter 0.071429 vowel vowel vowel 0.142857 Analysis part two: __________________ Using the last word of the sentence: position, these are four possible word associations: Algren N catenated t beef NitV Abyssinian banana h The result using Analysis part ones data is: catenated t _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ __________________ __________________ An input sentence is converted to lower case: __________________ sms pings are received by a cellphone, but the user will not be notified of it. __________________ The secret message in the sentence: __________________ but the not notified it The last word is: it __________________ Analysis part one: __________________ letter vowel letter 0.400000 letter vowel vowel 0.400000 vowel vowel letter 0.200000 vowel vowel vowel 0.000000 Analysis part two: __________________ Using the last word of the sentence: it, these are four possible word associations: Anteros N ambush NVt bivouacked V Abyssinian banana h The result using Analysis part ones data is: ambush NVt _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ __________________ __________________ An input sentence is converted to lower case: __________________ however, the cellphone carrier will record the data in a log, which can be requ ested by the government. __________________ The secret message in the sentence: __________________ however the cellphone carrier record the data in log can requested the governmen t The last word is: government __________________ Analysis part one: __________________ letter vowel letter 0.538462 letter vowel vowel 0.384615 vowel vowel letter 0.076923 vowel vowel vowel 0.000000 Analysis part two: __________________ Using the last word of the sentence: government, these are four possible word associations: Ashleigh N abnormalizing t appraise tV Abney level h The result using Analysis part ones data is: abnormalizing t _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ __________________ __________________ An input sentence is converted to lower case: __________________ while the data do not provide information about the phone, they do deliver loca tion data via the cell towers that were used when the silent sms was sent. __________________ The secret message in the sentence: __________________ the data not information about the phone they location data the towers that used when the silent sms was sent The last word is: sent __________________ Analysis part one: __________________ letter vowel letter 0.450000 letter vowel vowel 0.400000 vowel vowel letter 0.100000 vowel vowel vowel 0.050000 Analysis part two: __________________ Using the last word of the sentence: sent, these are four possible word associations: Algren N abnormalising t automobile NV Abney level h The result using Analysis part ones data is: abnormalising t _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Press any key to continue . . .

The input sentence is a quote snippet from tomshardware article.

here is the link to the source and program, the file the program reads to get words was from 'kevins word list' and I used the 'Part Of Speech Database' and edited the file so the program could read the last letter which shows what type of grammar it is.
Thought generator.zip

Here is the legend to decode the letters at the end of the word:

Code:

N Noun P Plural h Noun Phrase V Verb (usu participle) t Verb (transitive) i Verb (intransitive) A Adjective v Adverb C Conjunction P Preposition ! Interjection r Pronoun D Definite Article I Indefinite Article o Nominative

I'll upload the source and the file it reads from is too big to upload so you have to get it from the attached link.

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Now the result, the words below the percenteges, isn’t fluent english and is barely a sentence, it’s a pretend sentence, but it shows grammar in the words that are generated.

I suppose if somebody was industrious they could scale it up to sophistication.

So have a look at the source, dl the text file and try out the program.
It's a toy to me, but what you'll think about it I don't know. :confused:
01-04-2012
memcpy

Seriously, do you have to upload everything as "corgi.zip.txt"? ._.

The program itself is much better in regards to copy/pasted stuff, there's a couple areas that could be improved, but mainly it's a lot better. I'd make these changes to make it even better:

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Code:

char red[] = "one"; char green[] = "two"; char blue[] = "three"; char yellow[] = "four";

Confusing names aside, these are only being used once in the strcoll() calls, and therefore no reason to declare them at the top of your function.

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Code:

char * pch = malloc(4096); char * list_of_words = malloc(4096); char * last = malloc(4096); char * letters = malloc(4096); char * whole_consonant_words = malloc(4096); char * last_string = malloc(4096); char * words = malloc(4096); char * one_word = malloc(4096); char * calculation = malloc(4096);

Still ridiculously wasteful of memory, and "one_word" isn't even being used.

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Code:

float one; float two; float three; float four; float total; float five; float six; float seven; float eight; float total_2; float percentage_1; float percentage_2; float percentage_3; float percentage_4; one = 0; two = 0; three = 0; four = 0; total = 0; five = 0; six = 0; seven = 0; eight = 0; percentage_1 = 0; percentage_2 = 0; percentage_3 = 0; percentage_4 = 0;

Try using arrays:

Code:

float numbers[8]; float percentages[4]; memset(numbers, 0, 8 * sizeof(float));

Also, what's the point of having them all floats when they're not doing any floating point arithmetic? Only the percentages need to be stored as float, everything else as int/short/char and typecasted for calculation.

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You have unused variables and messed up "if" statements littered around the whole program. Use GCC with some flags ("-Wall -pedantic" for a few) to spot where they are and fix them.

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Code:

char find_letter (char* a, char* b) { char string = strlen(b); strncpy (a,b,1); a[1]='\0'; return 0; }

This is still wrong. I even gave you a prototype for how the function should look in your last thread. If the function is truly to find the first letter in a word as the comment said, it should (a) return such letter, and (b) not use strcpy or strlen when "return a[0]" is sufficient.

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Your function "redefined_sentence" is a large mess of spaghetti code, made worse by not adhering to the rule that "a function should do one thing and do it well", and goto's sprinkled liberally throughout. The fact that it's 255 lines should be a dead giveaway to this.
01-05-2012
jeremy duncan

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I wasn't happy with the programs output so I have been busy fixing that.

Here are the new results:

Code:

Input a sentence. Press Enter when done. German authorities apparently use silent SMS to create a movement profile of sus pects or locate their position. SMS pings are received by a cellphone, but the u ser will not be notified of it. However, the cellphone carrier will record the d ata in a log, which can be requested by the government. While the data do not pr ovide information about the phone, they do deliver location data via the cell to wers that were used when the silent SMS was sent. __________________ __________________ An input sentence is converted to lower case: __________________ german authorities apparently use silent sms to create a movement profile of sus pects or locate their position. __________________ The secret message in the sentence: __________________ german authorities apparently use silent sms to create movement profile suspects locate their position The last word is: position __________________ Analysis part one: __________________ letter vowel letter 0.571429 letter vowel vowel 0.214286 vowel vowel letter 0.071429 vowel vowel vowel 0.142857 Analysis part two: __________________ Using the last word of the sentence: position, these are four possible word associations: its D Int Rev h amidst P Death N The result using Analysis part ones data is: Death N _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ __________________ __________________ An input sentence is converted to lower case: __________________ sms pings are received by a cellphone, but the user will not be notified of it. __________________ The secret message in the sentence: __________________ but the not notified it The last word is: it __________________ Analysis part one: __________________ letter vowel letter 0.400000 letter vowel vowel 0.400000 vowel vowel letter 0.200000 vowel vowel vowel 0.000000 Analysis part two: __________________ Using the last word of the sentence: it, these are four possible word associations: its D Phil I h amidst P Ibsenism N The result using Analysis part ones data is: Ibsenism N _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ __________________ __________________ An input sentence is converted to lower case: __________________ however, the cellphone carrier will record the data in a log, which can be requ ested by the government. __________________ The secret message in the sentence: __________________ however the cellphone carrier record the data in log can requested the governmen t The last word is: government __________________ Analysis part one: __________________ letter vowel letter 0.538462 letter vowel vowel 0.384615 vowel vowel letter 0.076923 vowel vowel vowel 0.000000 Analysis part two: __________________ Using the last word of the sentence: government, these are four possible word associations: her rD GI tag h among P Covell N The result using Analysis part ones data is: Covell N _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ __________________ __________________ An input sentence is converted to lower case: __________________ while the data do not provide information about the phone, they do deliver loca tion data via the cell towers that were used when the silent sms was sent. __________________ The secret message in the sentence: __________________ the data not information about the phone they location data the towers that used when the silent sms was sent The last word is: sent __________________ Analysis part one: __________________ letter vowel letter 0.450000 letter vowel vowel 0.400000 vowel vowel letter 0.100000 vowel vowel vowel 0.050000 Analysis part two: __________________ Using the last word of the sentence: sent, these are four possible word associations: her rD Ivan IV h amongst P Demus N The result using Analysis part ones data is: Demus N _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Press any key to continue . . .

I tweaked the code a bit. Here is the link to the new source and program:Thought generator_2.zip

I had to work on the results a bit to get it to look this good. Try the program and input your own sentences and post the results.

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Thanks for the tips. They aren't being used yet because I was busy doing this update, but I will look at them again later. Time to rest a bit.
01-05-2012
anduril462
You're incorrectly identifying parts of speech. Do you fully understand what all the parts of speech are and did you actually test your output?
- You use uppercase P for plural and preposition, so I can't tell if "amidst", "among" and "amongst" are labeled correctly.
- "its" is not a definite article
- I'm not really sure what "Int Rev" is, but I sure can't see how it's a noun phrase
- "Phil" is neither an indefinite article or a noun phrase, it's a proper noun.
- "her" is not a definite article
- You have uppercase V for verb (usu participle) and adverb. Either way, "Ivan" is neither. Also, Ivan is not an indefinite article or noun phrase. It's a proper noun.
01-06-2012
jeremy duncan

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Input a sentence. Press Enter when done. This should come as a great relief to anyone planning a quantum computer self-bu ild: wires still conduct electricity and obey key laws of classical physics even when they're built at the nanoscale. Researchers at Purdue and Melbourne univer sities used chains of phosphorus atoms inside a silicon crystal to create a wire that's just four atoms wide and a single atom high -- 20 times smaller than the previous record-holder and infinitely narrower than anything you'd find at Newe gg. The video after the break almost explains how they did it. __________________ __________________ An input sentence is converted to lower case: __________________ this should come as a great relief to anyone planning a quantum computer self-bu ild: wires still conduct electricity and obey key laws of classical physics even when they're built at the nanoscale. __________________ The secret message in the sentence: __________________ this should come as relief anyone planning quantum computer selfbuild wires stil l conduct electricity and laws classical physics even when built nanoscale The last word is: nanoscale __________________ Analysis part one: __________________ letter vowel letter 0.636364 letter vowel vowel 0.136364 vowel vowel letter 0.136364 vowel vowel vowel 0.090909 Analysis part two: __________________ Using the last word of the sentence: nanoscale, these are four possible word associations: Balsam N bedevil V cosset tNV aptly v The result using Analysis part ones data is: cosset tNV _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ __________________ __________________ An input sentence is converted to lower case: __________________ researchers at purdue and melbourne universities used chains of phosphorus atom s inside a silicon crystal to create a wire that's just four atoms wide and a si ngle atom high -- 20 times smaller than the previous record-holder and infinitel y narrower than anything you'd find at newegg. __________________ The secret message in the sentence: __________________ and melbourne universities chains inside silicon wire wide and single high than and infinitely narrower than anything find newegg The last word is: newegg __________________ Analysis part one: __________________ letter vowel letter 0.421053 letter vowel vowel 0.210526 vowel vowel letter 0.263158 vowel vowel vowel 0.105263 Analysis part two: __________________ Using the last word of the sentence: newegg, these are four possible word associations: Benisch N bevelled V dight V blandly v The result using Analysis part ones data is: dight V _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ __________________ __________________ An input sentence is converted to lower case: __________________ the video after the break almost explains how they did it. __________________ The secret message in the sentence: __________________ the after the almost they it The last word is: it __________________ Analysis part one: __________________ letter vowel letter 0.000000 letter vowel vowel 0.500000 vowel vowel letter 0.500000 vowel vowel vowel 0.000000 Analysis part two: __________________ Using the last word of the sentence: it, these are four possible word associations: Bothe N bilged V drill in V briskly v The result using Analysis part ones data is: briskly v _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Press any key to continue . . .

from the article: This electric wire is four atoms thick, and you thought speaker cable was fiddly (video) -- Engadget

here is the link to download the program and source: Thought generator_3.zip

The way I did this is to create a template then tweak the code to get results. This is my template:

Code:

if( vowel_count < 3 && letter_count > 1 && strpbrk(filedata, c) && strpbrk(filedata, "i") )

The template has three parts:
a.) The letter and vowel count. The vowel in the word is feminine and the consonant is masculine. But tweaking the amount of feminine in the word the type of word is dial-able from wordy to spartan and everything in-between.
b.) The use of 'e' and 'e'. The 'e' is passive and the 'i' is active in words. So I brought in words that had these so there is a type of 'on' 'off' to the word, 'i = on' 'e = off'.
c.) Then I included something from the other word, be that a word generated or the source word, to give some randomness to the results.

The rest was tweaking the results of each word so the output was acceptable for every entry input to the program I tried.

As far as making the program into more functions I haven't gotten around to that, as I have been busy getting this code made.
Since I probable won't be updating the code anymore and nobody will use my source I have no reason to make more functions from the source to clean it up.
So I'm quite happy with leaving it as is. This code and project is a toy to me, and nobody else probably even tried it out yet, and never will.
I dunno, maybe I'm being negative in my attitude, but I don't feel negative about just leaving the code as is.
What I think is a better idea is to learn C then go through my code and fix each one then, rather then get it second hand from you kind people as to what is wrong with it.

anduril462,

I didn't make the word list that generates the words with the grammar beside it, I got the list from 'Kevin' word list', he got it from a prestigious university who the read-me says I can't identify, so go read the read-me to see who made it.

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01-06-2012
jeremy duncan

This post explains the programs output to one of the sentence in the previous post I made.

First, this sentence, was used:
'the video after the break almost explains how they did it.'

Second, this sentence was made into a shortened version:
'the after the almost they it'

Third, this made the percentages:
letter vowel letter 0.000000
letter vowel vowel 0.500000
vowel vowel letter 0.500000
vowel vowel vowel 0.000000

Fourth, Taking the last word 'it' these words were made:
Bothe N

bilged V

drill in V

briskly v

Fifth, taking the percentages the word in the fourth step that best matches the sentence 'the video after the break almost explains how they did it.' is 'briskly'.

Sixth, taking the four word the program generated without their grammar, this is the sentence:
"Bothe bilged drill in briskly."
01-12-2012
jeremy duncan

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Hi, I got my rest and decided to clean up my code a bit, so it's been divided into more functions so each function is really easy to understand now.

And I have updated the program a bit.
First I have the if statement tweaked a bit, it's now this:

Code:

char some_letters[] = "dgjlpsv"; if( vowel_count < 3 && letter_count > 1 && strpbrk(filedata, some_letters) && strpbrk(filedata, c) )

Where filedata is the word from the dictionary, some_letters is a bunch of letters I chose randomly, and 'c' is the last word in the sentence.
So the if conditions are:
a.) vowel and consonant count
b.) letters I picked.
c.) the original word from the sentence, to add randomness.

The goal in the four words the program generates is to have different phonetic enunciation's, three or two at least.
So the first word has a opposite phonetic sound from the fourth word displayed in the list of four in the console window.

Here is a example of the new program:

Code:

Input a sentence. Press Enter when done. Textron previously said that that it is considering legal action over the unlice nsed use of its trademarks for the AH-1Z, UH-1Y and V-22 Bell helicopters in the video game. __________________ __________________ An input sentence is converted to lower case: __________________ textron previously said that that it is considering legal action over the unlice nsed use of its trademarks for the ah-1z, uh-1y and v-22 bell helicopters in the video game. __________________ The secret message in the sentence: __________________ considering legal trademarks game The last word is: game __________________ Analysis part one: __________________ letter vowel letter 0.750000 letter vowel vowel 0.250000 vowel vowel letter 0.000000 vowel vowel vowel 0.000000 Analysis part two: __________________ Using the last word of the sentence: game, these are four possible word associations: in brief v Krebs cycle h blitzkrieg NV brotherly Av The result using Analysis part ones data is: brotherly Av _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Press any key to continue . . .

This sentence was generated: "in brief Krebs cycle blitzkrieg brotherly".

so 'in brief' has a different phonetic sound than 'brotherly'. If the four words transition the sound from the first word to the fourth word gradually the sentence should make some sense.
That is assuming the right grammar is chosen for each of the four words.
Then there's the concept of the flying ducks migrating forming a 'v', with the tip of 'v' being the word I use since it has the best chance of being a nice rhyming word with the other words.

Right now the program only works with one sentence, when I input multiple sentences only the first one sentence works.

I'm was at learning C++ then going to Qt to port this to that, but right now I'm just going to play video games.
There's little point to going to all that trouble if it's just a simple port with no improvement, so I don't know where to go from here with the program.

Here's another example of the program running:

Code:

Input a sentence. Press Enter when done. joy. __________________ __________________ An input sentence is converted to lower case: __________________ joy. __________________ The secret message in the sentence: __________________ joy The last word is: joy __________________ Analysis part one: __________________ letter vowel letter 0.000000 letter vowel vowel 1.000000 vowel vowel letter 0.000000 vowel vowel vowel 0.000000 Analysis part two: __________________ Using the last word of the sentence: joy, these are four possible word associations: feeble-mindedly v Peter Ibbetson h bottling V bountifully v The result using Analysis part ones data is: feeble-mindedly v _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ Press any key to continue . . .

This sentence was generated: "feeble-mindedly Peter Ibbetson bottling bountifully".
In reference to the book character 'Peter Ibbetson'. Peter used his dreams to meet his girlfriend then she dies and doesn't come to meet him anymore in his dream.

here's the link to the new program and source:

<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?n6ss7njh47cbju7">link</a>

The program is not complete. I get one step done then go to the next.
The first this I did was generate a random word.
Then I get multiple words generated.
Then I found the if statement conditions I mentioned before and in this reply.
Then I found the phonetic sound each of the four words needs so the four words together might make sense.

It's true that I don't have a real chatbot, but it makes semi-sense in it's output in it's current condition.

Watson is just a chatbot in that it is a fancy thesaurus. it finds the thesaurus type answer to the questions it's given.
chess AI is a chatbot too in that from each position there is another position that is as logical as a thesaurus would describe it.
So AI as it stands is just a fancy thesaurus, it reads what is logical from a selected options.

A human mind has psychology where images are perceivable and imaginations describable based uniquely on the user or viewer, that not a thesaurus that's intelligence.
My program uses a list of words in a dictionary and from any word it outputs some form of thought in it's four word sentence.
The thought, or four words my program outputs isn't like a thesaurus, you have to imagine what it's describing.
It's thinking like a human in that a human has to think creatively to understand it's 4 words.

Just delete the txt extension then unzip it to get the source file.
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So I'm not asking for the program to be tweaked anymore. I did this to follow what I was told in that functions should not be very big, so I tried to fix that and I fixed that broken function you told me about.
What I want to do is learn C then go through the file I just upload and look for errors myself.

I'm just posting this to tell you I have tried to do what you told me and here is my work if you want to see it.
01-13-2012
failure67

I haven't really posted in any of your threads because I honestly don't understand anything about your program, but I've been following this over the weeks. So just because very few people are posting in your threads doesn't mean nobody is interested in your work. Anyways, I recompiled and ran your program on a Linux machine. I entered the sentence:

Quote:

Hello, we are beginning!

The program got this far and then it crashed:

Quote:

Input a sentence. Press Enter when done.

Hello, we are beginning!

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An input sentence is converted to lower case:
__________________

hello, we are beginning.
*** glibc detected *** ./corgi: double free or corruption (top): 0x08156198 ***

Then I tried running the program again with

Quote:

Why did you crash?

and I got the same exact error:

Quote:

Input a sentence. Press Enter when done.

Why did you crash?

__________________
__________________

An input sentence is converted to lower case:
__________________

hello, we are beginning.
*** glibc detected *** ./corgi: double free or corruption (top): 0x09c2d198 ***

I didn't even type in "Hello, we are beginning" this time and it still showed up. It's pretty late right now, so I can't look at what's causing all of this, but I do recommend you to continue studying C and not to give up.