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automatic drabble generator
May. 10th, 2007 11:36 pmWarning: this post is 100% silliness.
I've just discovered Microsoft Word's "Autosummarize" function. It promises to identify the most important parts of any text and put together a crucial-bits-only version of your document; you specify the length.
So I decided to see what it would do when I asked it to make a 100-word summary of Sock Puppet.
( Behold the glory of the computer-generated Spander! )
I think the computer did a brilliant job of picking out the key plot points, don't you?
Okay, maybe it wasn't entirely fair asking the poor algorithm to pick the 100 most important words from a 42,000 word document. So then I decided it try it with Human Frailty, which is only 2700 words to start with.
( The result was actually borderline readable! )
I've just discovered Microsoft Word's "Autosummarize" function. It promises to identify the most important parts of any text and put together a crucial-bits-only version of your document; you specify the length.
So I decided to see what it would do when I asked it to make a 100-word summary of Sock Puppet.
( Behold the glory of the computer-generated Spander! )
I think the computer did a brilliant job of picking out the key plot points, don't you?
Okay, maybe it wasn't entirely fair asking the poor algorithm to pick the 100 most important words from a 42,000 word document. So then I decided it try it with Human Frailty, which is only 2700 words to start with.
( The result was actually borderline readable! )
