From: "Simon Kröger" Date: 2006-04-08T05:39:50+09:00 Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Markov Chains (#74) Eric Hodel schrieb: >> I should actually mention this idea was not mine. Eric Hodel gave it >> to me. I just wrote it up. Thanks Eric! > > The real trick is being space efficient. Markov text generation is a > very simple algorithm, but being more english-like requires a larger > corpus of input text. > > The best-reading solutions will use the largest input text corpus stored > the smallest space. If the text corpus is very small i tend to get complete sentences from the original - so very english-like. But in the more general case i guess you are right. cheers Simon