join-at-pivot

Hypothesis

Maybe if we join sentences from texts at their middle words, we will get new sentences.

Apparatus

• Python 2.7.6 (probably works with older versions too)
• A bunch of texts, possibly pre-cleaned text files previously downloaded from Project Gutenberg

Method

• Find the middle word ("pivot") of each sentence and split the sentence into a "beginner" which ends with the pivot and an "ender" which begins with the pivot.
• Construct a table of reasonably frequently-occuring pivots, their possible beginners, and their possible enders.
• To make a sentence, pick a random pivot, and random beginner for that pivot, and a random ender for that pivot.

Observations

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