using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using MarkovGrams.Utilities;
using SBRL.Algorithms;
namespace MarkovGrams
{
///
/// An unweighted character-based markov chain.
///
public class WeightedMarkovChain
{
private WeightedRandom wrandom = new WeightedRandom();
///
/// The ngrams that this markov chain currently contains.
///
private Dictionary ngrams;
///
/// Whether to always start generating a new word from an n-gram that starts with
/// an uppercase letter.
///
public bool StartOnUppercase = false;
///
/// The generation mode to use when running the Markov Chain.
///
///
/// The input n-grams must have been generated using the same mode specified here.
///
public GenerationMode Mode { get; private set; } = GenerationMode.CharacterLevel;
///
/// Creates a new character-based markov chain.
///
/// The ngrams to populate the new markov chain with.
public WeightedMarkovChain(Dictionary inNgrams, GenerationMode inMode) {
ngrams = inNgrams;
Mode = inMode;
}
public WeightedMarkovChain(Dictionary inNgrams, GenerationMode inMode) {
ngrams = new Dictionary();
foreach (KeyValuePair ngram in inNgrams)
ngrams[ngram.Key] = ngram.Value;
Mode = inMode;
}
///
/// Returns a random ngram that's currently loaded into this WeightedMarkovChain.
///
/// A random ngram from this UnweightedMarkovChain's cache of ngrams.
public string RandomNgram()
{
if (wrandom.Count == 0) {
if (!StartOnUppercase)
wrandom.SetContents(ngrams);
else {
Dictionary filteredNGrams = new Dictionary();
foreach (KeyValuePair pair in ngrams.Where((pair) => char.IsUpper(pair.Key[0])))
filteredNGrams.Add(pair.Key, pair.Value);
if (filteredNGrams.Count() == 0)
throw new Exception($"Error: No valid starting ngrams were found (StartOnUppercase: {StartOnUppercase}).");
wrandom.SetContents(filteredNGrams);
}
}
return wrandom.Next();
}
///
/// Generates a new random string from the currently stored ngrams.
///
///
/// The length of ngram to generate.
/// Note that this is a target, not a fixed value - e.g. passing 2 when the n-gram order is 3 will
/// result in a string of length 3. Also, depending on the current ngrams this markov chain contains,
/// it may end up being cut short.
///
/// A new random string.
public string Generate(int length)
{
string result = RandomNgram();
string lastNgram = result;
while(result.Length < length)
{
wrandom.ClearContents();
// The substring that the next ngram in the chain needs to start with
string nextStartsWith = Mode == GenerationMode.CharacterLevel ? lastNgram.Substring(1) : lastNgram.Split(' ')[0];
// Get a list of possible n-grams we could choose from next
Dictionary convNextNgrams = new Dictionary();
ngrams.Where(gram_data => gram_data.Key.StartsWith(nextStartsWith))
.ForEach((KeyValuePair ngramData) => convNextNgrams.Add(ngramData.Key, ngramData.Value));
// If there aren't any choices left, we can't exactly keep adding to the new string any more :-(
if(convNextNgrams.Count() == 0)
break;
wrandom.SetContents(convNextNgrams);
// Pick a random n-gram from the list
string nextNgram = wrandom.Next();
// Add the last character from the n-gram to the string we're building
if (Mode == GenerationMode.CharacterLevel)
result += nextNgram[nextNgram.Length - 1];
else
result += string.Join(" ", nextNgram.Split(' ').Skip(1));
lastNgram = nextNgram;
}
wrandom.ClearContents();
return result;
}
}
}