Portmanteau Generator • Hacker News Board

Re: Portmanteau Generator

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Post by mysterydip » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 10:42 AM UTC

warfareogance (warfare arrogance) needs to become a thing

Re: Portmanteau Generator

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Post by emiliobumachar » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 10:47 AM UTC

Very cool and impressive project. "portmanteau" + "website" yields "internetymology".

Re: Portmanteau Generator

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Post by misnome » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 12:34 PM UTC

I had my doubts going in, but:

"Pointless" "Meeting" -> Morondezvous

I think it just found the perfect word for my daily life.

Re: Portmanteau Generator

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Post by Grue3 » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 12:56 PM UTC

continuous integration = continunity (continue/unity)

artificial intelligence = smartificial (smart/artificial)

garbage collector = debriscycler (debris/recycler)

Re: Portmanteau Generator

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Post by slig » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 1:21 PM UTC

Suggestion: integrate this on a domain name suggestion service.

Re: Portmanteau Generator

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Post by binarymax » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 1:38 PM UTC

The results are just incredible. The depth of the project is very deep. Case in point, chess+clock yields hourglasker (hourglass & Lasker). Lasker was a German chess champion, well known in chess circles but the average person would have no idea who he is.

I wonder if this is using wikipedia or dbpedia to walk a graph and find words to stick together. That's the only way I could think of doing this.

Re: Portmanteau Generator

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Post by jahn716 » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 2:03 PM UTC

misnome wrote: post #23

I had my doubts going in, but: "Pointless" "Meeting" -> Morondezvous I think it just found the perfect word for my daily life.

You've just added value to my life! I will use this word with great pleasure.

Re: Portmanteau Generator

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Post by hliyan » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 2:56 PM UTC

Source code: https://github.com/jonadsimon/entendrepreneur-web/blob/maste...

Paper (just 2 pages): https://nips2018creativity.github.io/doc/entendrepreneur.pdf

Re: Portmanteau Generator

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Post by gwern » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 3:02 PM UTC

binarymax wrote: post #26

The results are just incredible. The depth of the project is very deep. Case in point, chess+clock yields hourglasker (hourglass & Lasker). Lasker was a German chess champion, well known in chess circles but the average person would have no idea who he is. I wonder if this is using wikipedia or dbpedia to walk a graph and find words to stick together. That's the only way I could think of doing this.

Nope, the paper says it's just using the FastText word embedding: https://nips2018creativity.github.io/doc/entendrepreneur.pdf which is just a particularly well-done word2vec: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1712.09405.pdf 'Lasker' and 'chess' no doubt co-occur quite strongly in their Internet corpus.

Re: Portmanteau Generator

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Post by gwern » Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 3:03 PM UTC

Also discussed on SSC: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/24/ot122-openne-thread/#c...