Blastar Paraphrase PHP LAMP Script Alpha 0.00001

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Example output, US Pledge of Allegiance:

Blastar Paraphase:

Here is your original text:

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Here is your text paraphrased:

manes consign good faith so the white referring to the concurrent States speaking of America, and for the monarchy since which her stands, gross toparchy dependent God, indivisible, linked to unfettered and cardinal virtues as proxy for all.

My first attempt at a PHP script using LAMP. Needs the Moby Thesaurus database for MySQL to work.

A proof of concept to paraphrase words automatically. My first attempt makes word salads apparently. Any feedback or help?

A thesaurus isn't sufficient for automated paraphrasing, because words have multiple meanings and you need to be able to know which sense of a word you are using to find equivalents.

Automatic paraphrasing is essentially machine translation with the same source and destination language (but excluding the one approach that makes this trivial, where the output text is exactly the input text), and would seem to be an AI problem of equal difficulty to machine translation more generally [1].

[1] That is, quite high difficulty: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-complete#Machine_translation

Well then I have a whole lot more to learn on the subject.

I might have created an Ipsum Language replacement then? :) Useful only in displaying 'dummy' text that makes no sense but it is used to cover and pad text areas for testing purposes or as filler text?

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