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- April 15 -

Automatic Madlibs

A web app or greasemonkey script that uses natural language processing to turn any webpage into a madlib. 

Using a collection of syntactic-analysis heuristics, Automatic Madlibs parses the content of a given url, identifies specific parts of speech, and replaces words with their category prompts, prompting the user to enter nouns and verbs and adjectives and so forth to rewrite the webpage.

So far example:

Welcome to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

…becomes…

[greeting] to Wikipedia, the [adjective] [noun] that anyone can [verb].

…becomes…

Holla back to Wikipedia, the fugly porcupine that anyone can poop. 5 notes link
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