The program presents a REPL, from which you can generate text in a
number of different ways, a list of commands can be produced by typing
help, and help for specific topics can be found by typing help topic.
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Download the KingJamesProgramming corpus from this repo
tar xvf KingJamesProgramming.tar.xz -
Set up the virtualenv
virtualenv venv source venv/bin/activate pip install -r requirements.txt -
Fire up the program
python3 -m markov -
Generate text
train 3 --noparagraphs /path/to/KingJamesProgramming/* tokens 350
To avoid infinite loops, the paragraphs and sentences generators may end
abruptly. Because they generate blocks of text at a time, and a block would only
end when a specific token (such as a paragraph break) occurs, the generators are
programmed to end the chunk immediately if they find themselves generating a
token from the same state repeatedly (with the threshold set at the number of
occurences of that state in the training corpus). This can cause issues with
small training sets or, if the training set has many rare words, with a high
chance of choosing a random token.