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.

• Part 1 - n-grams
• Part 2 - unweighted markov chains

Building

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

Windows

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

Linux and everyone else

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

Using

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

Credits

• The code was written by Starbeamrainbowlabs - that's me!
• I found the Markov Chain Text Generation post by Chris Wellons rather useful when writing this.
• Wordlists
  • The list of colours was 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.
  • The list of sciencey words was built from scratch by Starbeamrainbowlabs - that's me too!