On 4/8/06, Matthew Moss <matthew.moss.coder / gmail.com> wrote:
> I went and grabbed a bunch of Grimm's fairy tales from Gutenberg.  I
> still need to tweak my algorithm some; the most annoying thing I find
> is punctuation, especially quoted strings (i.e. speech) so that the
> output text looks like there is some valid speech in there and not
> just randomly scattered quote marks.
>
> Anyway, here's a sample I produced with my first attempt:
>
> There was a man who kills seven at one blow? I leapt over the tree
> because the huntsmen are shooting down there in the closet on the
> porch.' The miller said: 'The Devil must go out,' and opened the door
> and opened it. As she went in, a little dwarf no bigger than my
> finger. And before her stood princes, and dukes, and earls: and the
> fisherman went up to her palace all of shining gold; and told her
> mother that she must be the handsomest lady in the land; and she went
> to the fire and growled contentedly and comfortably. It was not long
> in saying 'Yes' to all this; and as they were entering the village,
> the son followed the fox's counsel, and without looking about him went
> to the other anvil. The old man led him back into the water. The girls
> came just in time; they held him fast and tried to free his beard from
> the line, but all in vain; he heard or saw nothing of Jorinda. At last
> he thought to himself: 'How the old woman is snoring! I must just see
> if she wants anything.'
>
>
> and:
>
> An aged count once lived in Switzerland, who had an only son, but he
> was now grown too old to work; so the farmer would give him his only
> daughter to her bed-side, and said, 'Always be a good girl, and I will
> never by myself leave the path, to run into the wood, till at last
> they danced out at the gate together. When they had walked a short
> time, when they had warmed themselves, they said: 'Comrade, shall we
> have a child, and he grows big, and we send him into the wide world,
> and looked neither to the right place. There they found the giants
> swimming in their blood, and all round about her, and the bells rang
> at each step which she took. Then she was in a great hurry. The little
> tailor looked round and saw a flock of sheep, the very shepherd whom
> the peasant knew had long been wishing to be mayor, so he cried with
> all his might.
>
>
how did you manage to get complete sentences?