haveal / lexiconjure

Twitter bot generating invented words and definitions using RNN + genetic algorithm

lexiconjure

@lexiconjure is a twitter bot that uses machine learning to define invented words, posting truncated definitions on Twitter and complete ones on Tumblr.

It uses an LSTM neural network trained on the Oxford English Dictionary. When you tweet a word (real or made up) @ the bot, you're seeding that generator.

By smashing together random sequences of characters with a genetic algorithm until something that looks (sort of) like a real word comes out, the bot invents its own words to define every 90 minutes.

Credits

• Bot created and trained by Ross Goodwin
• LSTM is Char-RNN by Andrej Karpathy
• Linguistic-taste integrity moderated by badwords.json via Darius Kazemi
• Model to be released under creative commons when training is complete
• Profile image: Book by Julien Deveaux from the Noun Project