Playing with NLTK

I spent some time this afternoon playing with NLTK, the Python Natural Language Toolkit; the book is highly recommended. I couldn't resist sharing the results of the first time I tried its generate function, which takes a particular text and tries to automatically generate more text in the same style.

First, from the Book of Genesis:

In the selfsame day entered Noah , and asses , flocks , and Maachah . And Joseph said unto him , Abrah and he asses , and told all these things are against me . And Jacob told Rachel that he hearkened not unto you . And Sarah said , I had seen the face of the air ; for he hath broken my covenant between God and every thing that creepeth upon the man : And Eber lived after he begat Salah four hundred and thirty years , and took of every sort shalt thou be come thither .

Next, Jane Austen:

[ Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 1811 ] CHAPTER 1 The family of his relations , I know Marianne ' s indisposition , beyond giving time for the world to seeing YOU .-- Very far from being weary of her feeling how more than commonly joyful . He was four years . Every thing was disregarded . I had called in Berkeley Street , January . " Mrs . Jennings , sagaciously smiling , " For my part , not being Willoughby , where much of his fate with Miss Morton , with two pointers playing round him ,

And finally, from a corpus of IRC conversations:

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Scarily accurate :-)