Post #203,262
4/13/05 6:21:44 PM
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Random CS Research Paper generator accepted to conference
[link|http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/|http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scigen/]
SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence.
One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to "fake" conferences; that is, conferences with no quality standards, which exist only to make money. A prime example, which you may recognize from spam in your inbox, is SCI/IIIS and its dozens of co-located conferences (for example, check out the gibberish on the WMSCI 2005 website). Using SCIgen to generate submissions for conferences like this gives us pleasure to no end. In fact, one of our papers was accepted to SCI 2005!
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Their accepted paper is entitled "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy". I read some of it. It is truly gibberish of the first order. Of particular amusement are the end notes. They set up a pay pal account to take donations so they can go to present their paper and have already received enough money to attend. I would love to go see the presentation as it will definitely be high comic theatre.
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Post #203,268
4/13/05 7:48:27 PM
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I like
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #203,276
4/13/05 8:43:27 PM
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Didn't the postmodernism generator get one published?
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Post #203,304
4/14/05 1:51:21 AM
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aka the Dada Engine, iirc
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Post #203,279
4/13/05 8:53:54 PM
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B b bb b bb b bb b bb b b bb ...
Uhh ... this is a quote from the real site. A Metaphor
Through WMSCI conferences, we are trying to relate the analytic thinking required in focused conference sessions, to the synthetic thinking, required for analogies generation, which calls for multi-focus domain and divergent thinking. We are trying to promote a synergic relation between analytically and synthetically oriented minds, as it is found between left and right brain hemispheres, by means of the corpus callosum. Then, WMSCI 2005 might be perceived as a research corpus callosum, trying to bridge analytically with synthetically oriented efforts, convergent with divergent thinkers and focused specialists with non-focused or multi-focused generalists ===
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Post #203,280
4/13/05 8:56:40 PM
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Heh. He said corpus callosum. </beavis>
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Post #203,364
4/14/05 1:26:25 PM
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Ya mised one:
[...]We are trying to promote a synergic relation between[...] jb4
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Post #203,586
4/16/05 3:58:09 PM
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This is overblown
My understanding is that it was not "accepted", but rather moved past the first round of the review process. And, it appears to have moved that far because it confused the first-round reviewers. Papers not rejected during the first round *automatically* go to the second round. Because this paper took longer to "parse" (forever, probably), it sat in their Limbo Pile, which was automatically promoted.
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Post #204,110
4/20/05 5:41:56 PM
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More news about it.
[link|http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/04/20/nonsensical_mit_prank_paper_accepted_for_publication/|Boston Globe]: Stribling doubts the paper fooled anyone who actually read it, which keeps the hoax a notch below a famous 1996 prank in which physicist Alan Sokal persuaded a Duke University journal called "Social Text" to publish a bogus article titled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity."
But in addition to mocking academic jargon, the pranks sheds light on what Stribling sees as a problem: conferences with low standards that pander to academics looking to pad their resumes, but which harm the reputations of more reputable gatherings.
"We certainly exposed this conference as being willing to publish any paper regardless of whether it's been peer reviewed, which is kind of a dangerous precedent to set," said Stribling, adding the students had been angered by spam from conference organizers soliciting papers. "It's kind of dangerous to be able to pass anything off as scientifically valid." Cheers, Scott.
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