taylor-bot/SentenceGenerator.rb

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class NullObject
def method_missing (*args, &block)
self
end
def nil?; true; end
def to_str; end
def to_ary; []; end
end
NULL_OBJECT = NullObject.new
class SentenceGenerator
def initialize(dictionary)
@dictionary = dictionary
@depth = @dictionary.depth
end
def random_word(last_word)
@dictionary.dictionary.fetch(last_word, NULL_OBJECT).sample
end
def is_terminator?(symbol)
(symbol =~ /[!?]/ || symbol == '.')
end
# Ugly way of making sure the key starts with a capital letter
def random_capitalized_word
random_choice = ["temp"]
until random_choice[0] =~ /[A-Z]/
words = @dictionary.dictionary.keys
random_choice = words[rand(words.length)]
end
random_choice
end
def generate_sentence()
sentence = []
maximum_length = 20
wordcount = 0
sentence.concat(random_capitalized_word)
until (is_terminator?(sentence.last[-1])) || wordcount > maximum_length
wordcount += 1
word = random_word(sentence.last(@depth))
sentence << word
end
sentence.join(' ')
end
end