Bug#271804: ITP: polygen -- Generate random sentences according to a grammar definition

[Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name    : polygen
  Version         : 1.0.6
  Upstream Author : Alvise Spanò <alvise.spano@quendi.it>
* URL             : http://www.example.org/
* License         : GPL
  Description     : Generate random sentences according to a grammar definition

PolyGen is a program for generating random sentences according to a
grammar definition, that is following custom syntactical and lexical
rules.

Formally, it is an interpreter of a language itself designed to define
languages, where to interpret means executing a source program in real
time and eventually outputting its result.

Here a source program is a grammar definition, the execution consists in
the exploration of such grammar by selecting a random path and the
result is the sentence built on the way.

Though PolyGen is quite a seriuos piece of software then, what else
would be more noble for it than being used as a parody tool for
linguistical habits, stereotypes and trends of this foolish era?

Principles of parody are focusing a ridiculous topic and eventually
abstracting its rules and schemes (here in terms of a grammar
definition) by which reproducing it through the variatio device.

And randomization is perfect at this purpose thanks to its purely
asemantic behaviour =:)


Please see: http://polygen.org/web/Home.444.0.html


Ciao,

Enrico

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8@euro