#Text Generation Workshop Notes

Delivered by Allison Parrish at CMU, 24 Feb 2015.

##My bots

• Power Vocab Tweet (markov chains)
• Library of Emoji (context-free grammars)
• Egress Methods (CMU pronouncing dictionary)
• Eventually Bot
• smiling face withface

##Markov chain text generation

• Example code (Python)
• Notes

In other languages:

• Dan Shiffman's Programming from A to Z: N-grams and Markov chains

##Context-free grammar text generation

• Example code (Python)
• Notes

In other languages:

• Dan Shiffman's Programming from A to Z: Grammars (anchor currently broken, please scroll down)

##CMU pronouncing dictionary

• Example code (Python)
• pronouncing-js, a (still very rough!) node.js/browser library I made (Javascript)
• Notes

Here's another node.js package for CMU dictionary

##Twitter bots

• Getting Twitter credentials in several languages
• Twython
• thricedotted's Twitter bot framework
• Twitter bot framework for Node.js
• twitter4j, a Twitter library for Java (works with Processing!)