SCIgen
Sign in to saveSCIgen is a paper generator that uses context-free grammar to randomly generate nonsense in the form of computer science research papers. Its original data source was a collection of computer science papers downloaded from CiteSeer. All elements of the papers are formed, including graphs, diagrams, and citations. Created by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, its stated aim is "to maximize amusement, rather than coherence." Originally created in 2005 to expose the lack of scrutiny of submissions to conferences, the generator subsequently became used, primarily by Chinese a
Key facts
- Software.name
- SCIgen
- Software.programming language
- Perl
- Software.language
- English
- Software.genre
- Paper generator
- Software.license
- GNU General Public License
- Software.website
- http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
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Source code
This is the source code for SCIgen. Detailed instructions on dependencies and running the code still need to be written.
Excerpt from the source-code README · 157 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen
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- source code repository URL
- github.com/strib/scigen
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Article
14 sectionsContents
- Sample output
- Prominent results
- Schlangemann {{anchor|Schlangemann}}
- List of works with notable acceptance
- In conferences
- In journals
- Spoofing Google Scholar and ''h''-index calculators
- 2013 retractions
- SciDetect
- 2021 report
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
SCIgen is a paper generator that uses context-free grammar to randomly generate nonsense in the form of computer science research papers. Its original data source was a collection of computer science papers downloaded from CiteSeer. All elements of the papers are formed, including graphs, diagrams, and citations. Created by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, its stated aim is "to maximize amusement, rather than coherence." Originally created in 2005 to expose the lack of scrutiny of submissions to conferences, the generator subsequently became used, primarily by Chinese academics, to create large numbers of fraudulent conference submissions, leading to the retraction of 122 SCIgen generated papers and the creation of detection software to combat its use.
==Sample output== Opening abstract of Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy: