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Maintainer: Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
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Build-Depends-Indep: debhelper (>= 4.0.0), ocaml-nox-3.08
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Standards-Version: 3.6.1.0
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Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
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Description: Generate random sentences according to a grammar definition
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PolyGen is a program for generating random sentences according to a grammar
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definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules.
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Formally, it is an interpreter of a language itself designed to define
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languages, where to interpret means executing a source program in real time
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and eventually outputting its result.
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Here a source program is a grammar definition, the execution consists in the
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exploration of such grammar by selecting a random path and the result is the
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sentence built on the way.
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Though PolyGen is quite a seriuos piece of software then, what else would be
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more noble for it than being used as a parody tool for linguistical habits,
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stereotypes and trends of this foolish era?
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Principles of parody are focusing a ridiculous topic and eventually
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abstracting its rules and schemes (here in terms of a grammar definition) by
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which reproducing it through the variatio device. And randomization is
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perfect at this purpose thanks to its purely asemantic behaviour =:)
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Description: Grammar definitions for polygen
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PolyGen is a program for generating random sentences according to a grammar
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definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical rules.
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Formally, it is an interpreter of a language itself designed to define
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languages, where to interpret means executing a source program in real time
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and eventually outputting its result.
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Here a source program is a grammar definition, the execution consists in the
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exploration of such grammar by selecting a random path and the result is the
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sentence built on the way.
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This package contains various grammar files suited for polygen.
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