http://writequit.org/blog/2010/09/21/swapping-words-with-their-synonyms-for-fun/ Tu fui, ego eris Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:26:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.5 http://writequit.org/blog/2010/09/21/swapping-words-with-their-synonyms-for-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-810 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:30:23 +0000 http://writequit.org/blog/?p=422#comment-810 Someone at HP Research did something similar about 30 years ago for a research squib: they took a single English sentence of about 12 words and substituted synonyms wherever they could to create sentence “variants”. The variants were all grammatically valid and, if my memory is correct, they ended up with roughly 9k variant sentences!
A good example of some of the problems of NLP.

]]> http://writequit.org/blog/2010/09/21/swapping-words-with-their-synonyms-for-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-798 Tue, 31 May 2011 06:43:18 +0000 http://writequit.org/blog/?p=422#comment-798 You can also use swapping not for fun only. It may help you in many things from rhyme finding to improving your language!

]]> http://writequit.org/blog/2010/09/21/swapping-words-with-their-synonyms-for-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-716 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 17:31:43 +0000 http://writequit.org/blog/?p=422#comment-716 Very nice, I enjoy fun side projects!

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