Automatic Computer Science Paper Generator

[JamesM]

Clever and funny, particularly if you're read many CS papers:

http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/

[LW]

Originally posted by JamesM
Clever and funny, particularly if you're read many CS papers:

They have to write an emacs front end to that so that we will finally have the 'M-x write-paper' command.

[Hydrogen Cyanide]

Oh, rats... I thought is was something usefull like this:
http://www.printfreegraphpaper.com/

[Rob Lister]

This is ALMOST worthy of a brand new topic but it appears, at first and second glance, that one of these auto-gen'ed papers has been accepted for publication.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200504/s1345732.htm

snip:

A bunch of computer-generated gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference in a victory for pranksters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Jeremy Stribling said that he and two fellow MIT graduate students questioned the standards of some academic conferences, so they wrote a computer program to generate research papers complete with nonsensical text, charts and diagrams.

The trio submitted two of the randomly assembled papers to the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI), scheduled to be held July 10-13 in Orlando, Florida.

To their surprise, one of the papers - "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy" - was accepted for presentation.

Mann has nothing on these guys. Did he go to MIT?

[Hydrogen Cyanide]

Originally posted by Rob Lister
...
Mann has nothing on these guys. Did he go to MIT?

Actually it IS the same topic!! The CS paper generator is what produced the paper that was accepted at WMSCI... see this quote from http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/:
One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to "fake" conferences; that is, conferences with no quality standards, which exist only to make money. A prime example, which you may recognize from spam in your inbox, is SCI/IIIS and its dozens of co-located conferences (for example, check out the gibberish on the WMSCI 2005 website).

And the beauty of the story is that donations came so they did get enough money to attend the conference.

[Deetee]

I believe Kumar uses an early version of this software.

[Art Vandelay]

Considering all the random text generators on the web, perhaps the next step would be to create a random random text generator generator. Or maybe even a random random random text generator generator generator. Or ....

[Hydrogen Cyanide]

Ben Goldacre of http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience has used the Paper Generator to create a paper with some of his "favorite" authors:
http://punitive-surgery.lcs.mit.edu/scicache/156/scimakelatex.89495.Dr+Gillian+McKeith+PhD.The+Staf f+of+Penta+Water.Ben+Goldacre.html ... or.. http://tinyurl.com/8b2bw