Hi bliako,

You might have some interest in reading Section 11.13 (Markov Analysis) of my Perl 6 book (http://greenteapress.com/thinkperl6/thinkperl6.pdf), which suggests an exercise on a quite similar subject, as well as Subsection A.9.5. presenting a solution to the aforesaid exercise. The exercise and its solution are doing much simpler things than your module, but it goes in the same direction: looking into a text for the probability, for a given sequence of words, of the words that might come next. Then using that probability to generate random sentences that might almost look like English (at least much more so than just picking random words). For example, running the program on Emma, the novel by Jane Austen, produced the following random text:

it was a black morning’s work for her. the friends from whom she could not have come to hartfield any more! dear affectionate creature! you banished to abbey mill farm. now i am afraid you are a great deal happier if she had no hesitation in approving. dear harriet, i give myself joy of so sorrowful an event;
As you can see, the result is almost syntactically correct, but not quite. And, semantically, it almost makes sense, but not quite.

I hope you find it fun.

In reply to Re: n-dimensional statistical analysis of DNA sequences (or text, or ...) by Laurent_R
in thread n-dimensional statistical analysis of DNA sequences (or text, or ...) by bliako

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