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State of the Union Machine: mixes of previous SOTUs

Nicko from the Sunlight Foundation writes, “Tomorrow night, President Barack Obama will give the annual State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress and today the Sunlight Foundation unveiled the State of the Union Machine. It allows you to generate your own random speech modeled on the language from different presidents’ previous addresses.

The project uses natural language processing on the corpus of nine previous presidents to generate random text based on the sliders that adjust the weight given to each president. The speeches are a mix of eloquent presidential prose and uncomfortable executive dissonance.”

The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: Under the fatal fever which in the documents communicated. N’T be here tonight have had our differences over the next decade and will not see your taxes shouldn’t have this problem on to our children with the tax deduction for doing it on the largest investment, their home.

To provide for the useful purposes of the United States has evinced that the increase of numbers during the year, the necessary funds will be so shortly. Not by a proportionate diminution of their dispositions are generally favorable and friendly; and to such a termination- by special orders, to whom, on the judiciary organization it will be enabled to judge whether the existing laws enable us efficaciously to maintain this course with our Indian neighbors in the Mediterranean fund instead thereof for a nation placed as we shall not call for. To increase jobs and growth is not acceptable.


Introducing the State of the Union Machine

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