Ring composition about 2017 HOT 7 OPEN

Ring composition is a great technique! I'm actually a little surprised someone else thought to use it at the same time as me. Good luck!

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from 2017.

I'm thinking I should separate the ontology lookup from the details of the rendering, so that I can generate either ring composition style asides or deeply nested footnotes.

Rather than rolling my own ontology, I'm thinking I'll just use ConceptNet, taking inspiration from https://github.com/aparrish/nanogenmo2014/blob/master/elaborate.py ; however, if that doesn't give suitable results, I might fall back to one of the several cleaned-up versions of wikipedia, or a variety of lookup mechanisms. (Lookup in a variety of cited dictionaries is less ring-composition-ish but more in line with footnote style.)

I suppose a hybrid is possible: ring composition for the 'main' story, and dense footnotes too (maybe even recursive footnotes, if we randomly choose the same word for expansion). This would correspond well with numbered lines, so a footnote could cite chapter and verse. Since the whole work is essentially an expansion upon nouns, it's easy enough then to add an index and make it look properly academic.

from 2017.

Did a prototype.

Code: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2017/ring.sh

Output: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/nanogenmo-2017/ring.txt

Basically, ring.py provides a story (essentially randomly rearranging the lines in a plot synopsis and indicating whether each line comes before or after the previous like chronologically), while annotate.py provides several kinds of annotations (hyponyms, hypernyms, and cross-references to other stories with full plot synopses). The ring.sh script runs annotate.py repeatedly until we hit 50k words.

from 2017.

whoa this is fantastic

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from 2017.

I lol'ed when it elaborated on "a" ("Such as, vitamin a1") :) agree that it would be worthwhile to try out footnotes, etc., maybe even a split "main text"/"commentary" a la Pale Fire or the Talmud.

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