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"SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence.
One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to conferences that you suspect might have very low submission standards. A prime example, which you may recognize from spam in your inbox, is SCI/IIIS and its dozens of co-located conferences (check out the very broad conference description on the WMSCI 2005 website). There's also a list of known bogus conferences. Using SCIgen to generate submissions for conferences like this gives us pleasure to no end. In fact, one of our papers was accepted to SCI 2005! See Examples for more details. "
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
Amazing program. If you read what it generates, it doesn't make much sense. But that's because IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. Here's a sample:
"Building a sufficient software environment took time, but was well worth it in the end. All software was hand assembled using AT&T System V's compiler built on Ron Rivest's toolkit for collectively evaluating Apple ][es. All software components were hand hex-editted using AT&T System V's compiler built on the British toolkit for computationally studying median distance. Third, all software was linked using Microsoft developer's studio with the help of Alan Turing's libraries for computationally deploying parallel joysticks. All of these techniques are of interesting historical significance; A. Thompson and J. Quinlan investigated a similar system in 1993."
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One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to conferences that you suspect might have very low submission standards. A prime example, which you may recognize from spam in your inbox, is SCI/IIIS and its dozens of co-located conferences (check out the very broad conference description on the WMSCI 2005 website). There's also a list of known bogus conferences. Using SCIgen to generate submissions for conferences like this gives us pleasure to no end. In fact, one of our papers was accepted to SCI 2005! See Examples for more details. "
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
Amazing program. If you read what it generates, it doesn't make much sense. But that's because IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. Here's a sample:
"Building a sufficient software environment took time, but was well worth it in the end. All software was hand assembled using AT&T System V's compiler built on Ron Rivest's toolkit for collectively evaluating Apple ][es. All software components were hand hex-editted using AT&T System V's compiler built on the British toolkit for computationally studying median distance. Third, all software was linked using Microsoft developer's studio with the help of Alan Turing's libraries for computationally deploying parallel joysticks. All of these techniques are of interesting historical significance; A. Thompson and J. Quinlan investigated a similar system in 1993."
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