multisource-markov

Hypothesis

We hypothesize that a Markov chain running across two very different texts which have only a few words in common (say, two texts in two different languages) might be interesting to see.

Apparatus

• Python 2.7.6 (probably works with older versions too)
• Two or more input texts

Method

• Construct a probability state graph suitable for using in a Markov chain, but on each word, also record which file it was read from. (This code is based on quick-and-dirty-markov)
• Choose a random path through the graph a la dissociated press, but, each time you switch from a word in a different file, note this in the output somehow. For now, we'll emphasize words from the second input file.

Observations

Here is some output from running this on "La Force / Le Temps et La Vie" by Paul Adam, and "The Night Land" by Hodgson. It is... what it is. But it would probably be just as interesting, or even more so, if the two sources were not distinguished. Because then the switch between the two languages wouldn't be telegraphed so much. But you could do that with a plain ol' Markov chain.

la journée rire nerveux, blanc de «dîners grecs», et fit vibrer les obligea de lui.

ne se souviendra de la voix enrouée de roussel, le cheval blanc versé dans son courage de leur pensée secrète.

si les propos politiques.

pitouët cependant le sabre celui-là, poussait à bord des explosions et qui parvint d'abord ne pouvoir rien résoudre à la voir.

leurs armes et le troisième escadron en éveil riait aux places between us, or another part.

and dreadful race; for i perceived to be as i should have felt within and some rock, which way to rise, and did love name she had been for i saw, there abode there, to refuse un bouton de son père admirable.

oui, le bois filent.

le frère est un riflard!

Ça ne se succédèrent.

sur les sapins des ans d'homme nerveux, furieux.

un seul mot: «faim» ouvrait la sœur paisible nondain, relève ton sabre, les yeux bleus et de boue des grandes bêtes meilleures, franchirent le satura.

edme et des fourreaux de brumaire, aux majors ceci: mack avait pris par chance, no saying that it did be met the labour with sweet unto the bed of the thousandth plateau of the shore, where doubt concerning these broodings, and she ran more see the three days of this new tender and the way off, it made it were they gat two inches of the plain; for such an unease within it be somewhat to this shall you can truly that i cut from the shape our slumber; and the darkness.

and i reached back my labour, but truly, naught to hold all.

now, presently, i did be not to teach her wishing; for, behold, i had the gorge, d'une victoire devait paraître à vouloir reconduire.

mais sur les lignes d'avant-garde s'éclipsèrent, et rapace.

So, we may ask, if this is actually not all that suitable for disconcerting jumps between corpora, what happens if we run it on two texts that have a fairly similar style, with a large number of words in common? Well, here it is running on "The Book of Cheese" and "The Principles of Scientific Management":

setting temperature of variations in the preparation of dairy equipment for roquefort cheese, the direction of handling rice coal, with resultant texture varying amounts of starter is commonly in relation of these are possible under the manufacturing process.

it comes from whole milk is filled to raise the making each man engaged in warm sweet milk.

the curdling temperature of the amido acids was carefully selected from kosher cheese, stirring to be evenly in furnishing protein 26-30 per cent with full measure the principal substance designed and the cheddaring process from each of the ground level and m.

j., 39.

bang's theory.+--another description of hungarian briuse which is ready for which each pound of these good delivery.

this allows the maximum | | 8.54 | | .72 | {1.2 | | cheese by this way to 70 per cent moisture test, 26.

ferments, 15, pages 130-146, 1909.

this type.

the cheese.

it is no commercial rennet will be optional with salt is widely in order to other the highest grade receive for handling of cheddar process the shovel to be accurate.

the alkali required the hours at the flavor and is difficult to which it has mechanical engineers, by rubbing the machine-shop work than the outer surface.

there is, how it is impossible, through any way of the rate of the minutest way maximum | 6.5 | ash or compounds of ripening the milk.

this organization with the amount of heating to be done by 8 the case the curd is constantly watched by them in cheese-making.

they could do the end of thumb.

If if you do it on two different collections of Wodehouse short stories, the highlight seems almost random. Perhaps unsurprisingly.

and the semi-darkness you like it, said awkwardly; but you had been hoped to explain at roville possesses two weeks peter you do i am dependent.

i was silence of the tears dried, and drove an idea which we artists, monsieur, i don't stop.

she had been standing looking after that deep waters with the very large blue eyes glowed in algiers?

benyon sat and the days ago _the island who cannot meet even the sudden stiffening of luck i met at that.

forty francs will prove of the bushes that he were getting it all, she groped my lap and shouted mr meggs at all.