CSC151 2007S, Class 26: Project: Text Generation (Part Two)

Admin:
* Due: HW 10
* I will be available via email (but not promptly) 
  over the next few days.  
  * Please email me questions on the project.
* You will form groups at the beginning of class tomorrow.

Overview:
* Review
* Improving Our Text Generation Strategy.
* Questions.
* Lab.

/What did we do yesterday?/

* Started working on the project
  * Learned how to generate "random" words
  * Um you put words in a text document (file) and then have a procedure
    compute a ratio of 1000 and take words from the list
    * Lines in the file ("WORD" frequency)
    * Strategy: Read a line, check the frequency, if its below the
      computed frequency, return the word
      * Otherwise, update computed freq and recursse
  * Thought about the next few days
    * Yesterday: The basics
    * Today: We'll hear from Jayme
    * Tomorrow: Choose groups, choose a goal, start to work on it
    * Friday: Work more on the goal
  * One way to construct compound parts of speech
    (define sentence
      (lambda ()
        (string-append (generate-part-of-speech 'foo) (generate-part-of-speech 'bar))))
* Wrote
  * Procedure to capitalize the first word in the sentence

/The New Reading/

* In addition to randomly selecting parts of speech, you can randomly
  select sentence structure (and other structures).
* Somehow need to "construct" the sentence structure (turn it into a
  string) using the build procedure

/Some Sentences/

* A great big pile of candy canes speaks.