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 1 | # SFPC Generative Text Workshop Fall 2015
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 3 | [Allison Parrish](http://www.decontextualize.com/)
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 5 | ##Session 01
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 7 | * Poetic text generation: Motivations, concepts, works
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 9 | Other tools to play around with:
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11 | * [GenGen](http://tinysubversions.com/gengen/)
12 | * [TextMechanic](http://textmechanic.com/)
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14 | Reading:
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16 | * [L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Lines](http://rwet.decontextualize.com/pdfs/Andrews-Bernstein_Language-Lines_1988.pdf)
17 | * [Grep: A Grammar](http://rwet.decontextualize.com/pdfs/witz71.pdf)
18 | 
19 | Exercises:
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21 | * [UNIX command line exercises](https://gist.github.com/aparrish/30cf87e287a4e3652342)
22 | 
23 | ##Session 02
24 | 
25 | * [Processing and generating text on the UNIX command line](http://rwet.decontextualize.com/book/unix/)
26 | * [Python: Expressions and strings](http://aparrish.neocities.org/Expressionsandstrings.html)
27 | 
28 | Reading:
29 | 
30 | * [Excerpts from *Creative Reading*](http://rwet.decontextualize.com/pdfs/protected/padgett.pdf)
31 | * Berrigan's *Sonnets* (distributed in class)
32 | * [Thus &](http://ifpthenq.co.uk/books/henderson-derek-thus/)
33 | 
34 | Exercises:
35 | 
36 | * [Expressions and strings](https://gist.github.com/aparrish/7be6ecf2d6b761f90c09)
37 | * [Dictionaries, sets, list comprehensions](https://gist.github.com/aparrish/7e6ec7964a509f83fcfe)
38 | 
39 | ##Session 03
40 | 
41 | * [Python: Making decisions about lines](http://www.decontextualize.com/teaching/rwet/the-source-text-making-decisions-about-lines/)
42 | * [Python: Lists and loops](http://aparrish.neocities.org/lists-loops.html)
43 | 
44 | Reading:
45 | 
46 | * Excerpts from *Virtual Muse* (distributed in class)
47 | 
48 | ##Session 04
49 | 
50 | * [Python: Dictionaries and web APIs](http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/ledeprogram/courses/blob/master/databases/02%20Dictionaries%20and%20Web%20APIs.ipynb)
51 | * [Text mashups](http://aparrish.neocities.org/mashups-with-multiple-files.html)
52 | 
53 | Reading:
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55 | * Jackson Mac Low, [Insect Assassins](http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/insect-assassins) and [Call Me Ishmael](http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/call-me-ishmael)
56 | * Hartley, G. ["Listen" and "Relate": Notes Towards a Reading of Jackson Mac Low](http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/hartley/maclow/maclow.html)
57 | 
58 | ##Session 05
59 | 
60 | * [Python: Functions and modules](http://rwet.decontextualize.com/book/functions/)
61 | 
62 | ##Session 06
63 | 
64 | * [Markov chain text generation](http://www.decontextualize.com/teaching/rwet/n-grams-and-markov-chains/) ([My Python implementation](https://github.com/aparrish/rwet-examples/blob/master/ngrams/markov.py))
65 | 
66 | 
67 | ##Session 07
68 | 
69 | * [Installing Python Libraries](http://rwet.decontextualize.com/book/installing-python-libraries/)
70 | * Using [CMU pronouncing dictionary](https://github.com/aparrish/gen-text-workshop/blob/master/cmu_pronouncing_dictionary_notes.md) with [pronouncingpy](https://pronouncing.readthedocs.org/en/latest/)
71 | * Using [Corpora project](https://github.com/dariusk/corpora) with
72 |   [pycorpora](https://github.com/aparrish/pycorpora)
73 | 
74 | ##Session 08
75 | 
76 | * [TextBlob](http://rwet.decontextualize.com/book/textblob/)
77 | * Searching sentences with Pattern
78 | * [Context-free grammar text generation](http://www.decontextualize.com/teaching/rwet/recursion-and-context-free-grammars/) ([Example code](https://github.com/aparrish/rwet-examples/blob/master/contextfree/contextfree.py) and [grammar](https://github.com/aparrish/rwet-examples/blob/master/contextfree/test_grammar.json))
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