17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Bill Stewart wrote:
Peter Wayner's work on Mimic Functions does just this sort of thing. You can describe a grammar, feed it random bits, and generate output that has the right statistics and can be reversed to get the original bits. His paper was on cs.cornell.edu a few years ago; don't know where to find it now.
If anyone finds out where Mimic has moved to I'd be very interested. Thanks, - Andy