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	Racter - Biocrawler
		Racter was an artificial intelligence computer program that generated English language prose at random.
		Racter was written by William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter.
		The commercial version of Racter was essentially a computerized version of Mad Libs, the game in which you fill in the blanks in advance and then plug them into a text template to produce a surrealistic tale.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Racter (371 words)

	Racter download @ Game Downloads
		Not really an interactive fiction game but rather one of the most intriguing piece of software ever created, Racter is one of the earliest commercial releases of computer intelligence-- AI gibberish, so to speak, but interesting nonetheless.
		This gives the appearance that Racter can actually have a conversation with the user that makes some sense, unlike Eliza, which just spits back what you type at it.
		Since some of the syntactical mistakes that Racter tends to make cannot be avoided, the decision was made to market the game in a humorous vein, which the marketing department at Mindscape dubbed "tongue-in-chip software" and "artificial insanity".
	free-game-downloads.mosw.com /abandonware/pc/adventure/games_p_r/racter.html (346 words)

	Racter - InformationBlast
		Racter was an artificial intelligence computer program that generated English language prose at random.
		Its seeming sophistication, however, proved to have been a hoax.
		Racter was written by William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter.
	www.informationblast.com /Racter.html (369 words)

	php-deluxe.net - description Racter
		The BASIC program that was released by Mindscape was far less sophisticated than anything that could have written the fairly sophisticated prose of The Policeman s Beard.
		The commercial version of Racter was essentially a computerized version of Mad Libs, the game in which you fill in the blanks in advance and then plug them into a text Template to produce a surrealism tale.
		By contrast, the text in The Policeman s Beard, if generated by the Racter program at all, would have been the product of Chamberlain s own specialized templates, none of which were included in the commercial release of the program.
	www.php-deluxe.net /encyclopedia,index.page,Racter.htm (410 words)

	Oxford's LOTR article fact-checked by Racter \| Aimless Rambling \| Cracked.com Forums
		RACTER: The elves in the film are portrayed as living in a warm paradise because in Hell it's required that the elves in the film are portrayed as living in a warm paradise.
		RACTER: The character of the rebellious-but-helpful Ranger was stolen from Val Kilmer in Willow.
		RACTER: Either hippies are an evolutionary dead end or Arwen did give up her eternal life for a single romance with a human.
	www.pointlesswasteoftime.com /smf/index.php?topic=5433.40 (4830 words)

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		Racter charged forward ahead of the others, but her psychic powers threw him into the ground hard enough to toss dirt and moss up off the ground, cracking his head against the ground more than a little head.
		Racter suddenly grabbed it from him and threw it to the side.
		Racter’s second hand came forward, but Oriacon caught hold of it and pulled Racter forward and uppercut him in the jaw.
	web.bsu.edu /absundstrom/chapters/c13.doc (5847 words)

	Racter
		Racter ist ein von William Chamberlain und Thomas Etter 1984 geschriebenes Programm (ein so genannter Chatterbot), das in freier Assoziation grammatikalisch richtige Texte verfasst.
		Racter veröffentlichte 1984 ein Buch, "The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed" (ISBN 0-446-38051-2).
		Es liest sich sehr kurzweilig, jedoch wird man den Eindruck nicht los, dass Racter schizophren ist.
	www.wiederaufarbeitungsanlage.de /Racter.html (67 words)

	Racter for Apple II - MobyGames
		Racter strings together words according to "syntax directives", and the illusion of coherence is increased by repeated re-use of text variables.
		Racter was published under Mindscape's "ALERT: Software that challenges the mind." advertising moniker.
		Along that vein, a second piece of material was included in the Racter package: An order form to order tee-shirts and sweatshirts with the Institute's seal on it.
	www.mobygames.com /game/apple2/racter (356 words)

	colorful personalities
		That is, when presented with sentences in English as their input, they produce other grammatical sentences as their output, which sometimes manages to give the flavor of a conversation.
		In contrast to both ELIZA and PARRY, RACTER was designed in a tongue-in-cheek manner, using remarkably minimal resources, to amuse and entertain its users, rather than to advance the research in natural language processing.
		RACTER, The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed, with an introduction by Bill Chamberlain (New York: Walner, 1984).
	www.stanford.edu /group/SHR/4-2/text/dialogues.html (1890 words)

	Lycos Search Results: results for Racter
		The authorship is attributed to RACTER, "written in compiled BASIC on a Z80 with 64k of RAM."...
		Racter, from The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed...
		Racter, which was written in compiled BASIC on a Z80 micro with 64K of RAM, conjugates both regular and irregular verbs, prints the singular...
	search.lycos.com /?query=Racter (227 words)

	Home of the Underdogs - Entry: Racter
		MobyGames description tell it all: "Racter strings together words according to "syntax directives", and the illusion of coherence is increased by repeated re-use of text variables.
		Not a true "AI" by any stretch of the word, but a unique program that is well worth a look as an indication of where the field of artificial intelligence was heading in 1984.
		Racter FAQ, Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed: out-of-print order
	www.the-underdogs.info /game.php?id=2395 (402 words)

	Racter (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Racter, short for Raconteur, was developed by William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter in 1984.
		Racter was designed as a storytelling program that would generate original texts.
		Racter, Chamberlain claimed, was the first program to write a book -- The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed, published in 1984.
	www.a-website.org /hyperessays/09racter.html (312 words)

	Download Racter by Inrac Corporation \| VETUSWARE.COM - the biggest free abandonware collection in the universe
		Racter is an artificial intelligence simulator from 1984.
		Similar to Eliza, Racter will converse with the user until boredom occurs.
		I downloaded Racter, and somehow it got separated into many unzipped icons.
	vetusware.com /download/Racter/?id=3454 (171 words)

	Amazon.com: The Policeman's Beard Is Half Constructed: Books: Racter
		However, be aware that the text has been extensively "massaged" by human authors, and the original computer program, RACTER, that was used to produce it, required a great deal of human intervention to generate the text.
		This can be confirmed by googling for RACTER or the book title, which has been extensively discussed on comp.ai.
		Racter seems to have a predilection for lettuce, and for using a plethora of florid adjectives.
	www.amazon.com /Policemans-Beard-Half-Constructed/dp/0446380512 (503 words)

	Racter
		Racter, short for Raconteur (shortened because the computers of the day could not handle filenames longer than six characters) was developed by William Chamberlain and Thomas Etter in 1984.
		One could interact with Racter, much the way one could with Eliza and Parry, but Racter could also be called upon to generate 'original' literature.
		In fact, Racter is claimed to be the first computer program to write a book when, in 1984, The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed, a collection of poetry and prose, was published.
	www.labyrinth.net.au /~saul/essays/09racter.html (404 words)

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		Racter ran forward at the still flaming insect and rammed his blade into the creature’s thorax.
		I’ll be fine.” Racter began to move over to the pair, but Duce dropped in front of him.
		Flare jumped away from Racter and shot ten fire darts at the creature, but her innate sense of magic had her jump into the air and back, but not before she released the werepanther’s locks.
	web.bsu.edu /absundstrom/chapters/c08.doc (4168 words)

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	Racter
		Racter ist ein von William Chamberlain und Etter 1984 geschriebenes Programm (ein so genannter Chatterbot) das in Assoziation grammatikalisch richtige Texte verfasst.
		Racter veröffentlichte 1984 ein Buch "The Beard is Half-Constructed" (ISBN 0-446-38051-2).
		Es liest sich sehr kurzweilig jedoch man den Eindruck nicht los dass Racter schizophren ist.
	www.uni-protokolle.de /Lexikon/Racter.html (75 words)

	Viruswitch: June 2006
		Racter was an artificial intelligence program I used to run on an Amiga 500+.
		The voice function was embedded and the computer would read out loud, in a monotonous computerized way,everything that Racter said.
		I remember that the teachers comments were that a human being needs to interact with other human beings and that I should spent more time with real people.
	viruswitch.blogspot.com /2006_06_01_archive.html (2112 words)

	Dealing With Customer Support That Doesn't - Page 2 - Janis Ian Forum
		RACTER even produced a book, "The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed".
		I've often wondered whether "A.I." has advanced significantly since the days of RACTER, and whether a new and improved version might be out there.
		Never heard of RACTER, DaveM, but I too spent hours talking with an A.I. The one I'm most familiar with is Dr.
	www.janisian.com /forum/showthread.php?p=15495&mode=linear (858 words)

	Ciaran's Journal
		Racter is short for Raconteur, and is a program that is designed to tell stories.
		The Racter program itself is 18 years old, and it was used to create an entire book once, called The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed.
		I would provide a link to where I downloaded it, but I'm not sure whether it'd be legal, as Racter was (at least at one time) sold commercially, and not for a cheap price either (about $50, or £33).
	theblob.org /journal/m092002.html (1946 words)

	Poetry Foundation: The online home of the Poetry Foundation
		The Policeman’s Beard Is Half-Constructed is one of the books that I most like to bring into the classroom, since the work often mystifies and frightens young poets, many of whom see within it nothing more than an untimely synopsis of their own demise.
		RACTER, the author, is an automated algorithm—an obsolete megabyte of computer software, whose random output confounds our mundane concept of authorship, refuting any normal notion of poetic genius.
		RACTER reveals that what we might dismiss as a technical fault in a device, we might otherwise glorify as a stylistic quirk in a person.
	poetryfoundation.org /harriet/2007/11/poetic_machines_01.html (1008 words)

	Getting a Computer to Write About Itself
		The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed is a collection of RACTER's early fiction.
		These hypothetical rules are analogous to both the grammar and the syntactical dynamics of a language; in the case of our program, called Racter, the language is English.
		Our program conjugates regular and irregular verbs, prints the singular and plural of regular and irregular nouns, remembers the gender of nouns and can assign variable status to randomly chosen "things." These things can be words, clause or sentence forms, paragraph structures or whole story forms.
	www.atariarchives.org /deli/write_about_itself.php (502 words)

	Download Racter by Inrac Corporation \| VETUSWARE.COM - the biggest free abandonware collection in the universe
		Racter is an artificial intelligence simulator from 1984.
		Similar to Eliza, Racter will converse with the user until boredom occurs.
		I downloaded Racter, and somehow it got separated into many unzipped icons.
	www.vetusware.com /download/Racter/?id=3454 (163 words)

	[6-3] Well-known Classics
		Racter is available from John Owens, INRAC Corp./Nickers International Ltd., 12 Schubert Street, Staten Island, NY 10305, Tel: 718-448-6283, or Fax: 718-448-6298.
		Racter was published in 1984, and written in compiled BASIC.
		Racter is also sold by the following mail-order software retailer: Mindware, 1803 Mission Street, Suite 414, Santa Cruz, CA 95060-5292, phone 800-447-0477 (408-427-9455), fax 408-429-5302.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/ai-faq/general/part6/section-3.html (366 words)

	Blog with a View: December 2005
		Racter's inventor defends the composing process and argues his machine is doing the heavy verbal lifting.
		Its [Racter's] existence was revealed to the world in 1984.
		Racter appears to strongly illustrate the merits of Stanley Fish's reader-response theory that "rejects the author's intentionality and places meaning solely within the arena of those receiving the text." Racter, chugging along and outputting random strings of text like a ouija board in overdrive, cannot intend any specific meaning.
	cruelanimal.blogspot.com /2005_11_13_cruelanimal_archive.html (9453 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Another could be called the Mad Libs method: it involves the creation of templates for various sentence structures, and filling in the blanks with noun phrases or verb phrases; these phrase generation procedures can be looped to add recursion and give the output the appearance of greater complexity and sophistication.
		Racter was a computer program that generated nonsense texts by this method; however, Racter's book, The Policeman's Beard is Half Constructed, proved to have been the product of heavy human editing of the output of the program.
		The phrase 'Colorless green ideas sleep furiously' was coined by Noam Chomsky as an example of nonsense.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Nonsense (1125 words)

	algorhythms of the meaningless. \| MetaFilter
		I was fascinated by the idea of Racter (a supposedly completely computer-generated work of mixed prose, poetry, and conversation) since I first heard of it, God knows when, and read all those beautiful excerpts:
		I was amazed to find the full Racter text on line a while back, after being for so long certain it was only to be found on the shelves of certain collectors in faraway cities.
		Incedentally, Jorn Barger claims the Racter book, "The Policeman's Beard is Half-Constructed", is not nearly as computer-generated as it seems.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/32940 (621 words)

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