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Growing a Tree

Parts-of-Speech is a category of words that we learn at school: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, and sometimes numeral, article, or determiner.

In Natural Language Processing (NLP) there exist many writings that allow sentences to be parsed. This means that the algorithm can determine the part-of-speech of each word in a sentence. 'Growing a tree' uses this techniques to define all nouns in a specific sentence. Each noun is then replaced by its definition. This allows the sentence to grow autonomously and infinitely. The recipe of 'Growing a tree' was inspired by Oulipo's constraint of 'Littérature définitionnelle', invented by Marcel Benabou in 1966. In a given phrase, one replaces every significant element (noun, adjective, verb, adverb) by one of its definitions in a given dictionary ; one reiterates the operation on the newly received phrase, and again.

The dictionary of definitions used in this work is Wordnet. Wordnet is a combination of a dictionary and a thesaurus that can be read by machines. According to Wikipedia it was created in the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University starting in 1985. The project was initially funded by the US Office of Naval Research and later also by other US government agencies including DARPA, the National Science Foundation, the Disruptive Technology Office (formerly the Advanced Research and Development Activity), and REFLEX.

Installation note

add to /home/pi/.bashrc

if [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]; then 
  bash /home/pi/Documents/mundaneum/exhibition/growing_a_tree/growing_a_tree.sh
fi

Authors

An Mertens, Gijs de Heij

License

Copyright (C) Algolit, Brussels, 2019 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.