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Start the program.
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When prompted with:
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Input 'y' for using default values. Default values can be viewed by pressing 'n' on this step.
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To change default values hit 'n'.
You can make your own 'seed' word file to feed to the algorithm, different seed files will yield different words generated. To use custom seed file, go to 'Browse' button in the newly opened form and pick your file. You can also set the number of words to be generated and the frequency of word generation (in milliseconds). Click 'Save' button to continue.
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Now you can view the 'word matrix' by:
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When asked:
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By pressing 'y', the new form will open where you can watch all words being generated.
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Or by hitting 'n' - now only correctly generated English words will be shown on screen. In both cases, you can save generated words after the algorithm finishes.
Word Generator is a small Windows application, built in Visual Studio 2017 with C#.
It uses Markov chains based algorithm for generating new words. Learning part of this algorithm uses the 'word matrix', which is basically a table that tracks occurrences and frequency of every letter in the English alphabet (for a given dataset) and the 'space' or \0 sign (end of word). This matrix is later used for combining letters and creating new words randomly. The 'seed' file is a plain text file containing initial words that will be fed into the algorithm so it can 'learn'.
Apart from generating words, the app also contains feature for deciding if a newly generated word is English or not. It does this by comparing the newly generated word to a vast file of around 400.000 English words. https://github.com/dwyl/english-words
The algorithm is based on the code from the book Artificial Intelligence - A Systems Approach by M. Tim Jones, chapter 6., pages 177 - 184.