Experiments into markov chains, n-grams, and text generation.

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MarkovGrams

Experiments into markov chains, n-grams, and text generation. This repository is the result of the markov chain blog post mini-series on my blog.

Building

Building this project should be easy - I can provide prebuilt binaries upon request though if asked (see my website for contact information).

Open the solution in Visual Studio / MonoDevelop and hit build.

As above with MonoDevelop, or simply use the command xbuild whilst inside the root of the repository.

Detailed usage help can be seen by simply running the tool without any arguments:

./MarkovGrams.exe

Linux users might need to explicitly run it with mono:

mono ./MarkovGrams.exe

The wordlists/ directory contains a few interesting wordlists I used when writing and testing this program.

Filename	Contents	Comments
`colours.txt`	List of colours	Built with a sneaky bit of Javascript in the developer tools of this webpage from colorhexa, which turns out to be a really useful website about colours.
`Science Words.txt`	List of cool sciencey-type words	Compiled from scratch by Starbeamrainbowlabs - that's me!
`Cross-Code-Items.txt`	List of items in Cross-Code	A list of all items in the game CrossCode. Scraped from here by a clever bit of bash in `wordlists/download.sh`. I obviously don't own any of these names.
`Final-Fantasy-15-Items.txt`	List of items in Final Fantasy 15	Another list of in-game items - this time from Final Fantasy XV. Scraped from this wiki page and related pages. The even cleverer bit of bash that does this is also in `wordlists/download.sh`. Again, I don't own any of these :-)
`No-Mans-Sky-Items.txt`	List of items in No Man's Sky	Yep, you guessed it. Don't own this. Bash available in `wordlists/download.sh` - I had a bit of trouble with this one, and had to use an awkward hack or two.

The code was written by Starbeamrainbowlabs - that's me too!
I found the Markov Chain Text Generation post by Chris Wellons rather useful when writing this.
Wordlists