mlm@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Michael Mauldin) (05/15/85)
Please note that the ``kafka'' program recently posted to net.sources is not in any way related to my natural language generator (also called Kafka; see COLING-84, Mauldin, "Semantic Rule Based Text Generation"). My program is written in Franz Lisp and generates English text by a series of semantic transformational rules, starting from a case frame or similar knowledge structure. The recently posted program generates a C program which generates random instantiations of a CFG. I doubt that the author of the recent post intentionally usurped the name. Given that Franz Kafka wrote ``Metamophosis,'' it's a fairly obvious name to pick for such software. Of course, I think it's a slightly more obvious name if the program is also written in Franz Lisp, but who's to say. Michael L. Mauldin (Fuzzy) Department of Computer Science Mauldin@CMU-CS-CAD.ARPA Carnegie-Mellon University (412) 578-3065 Pittsburgh, PA 15213