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SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator. SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator About 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 conferences that you suspect might have very low submission standards. A prime example, which you may recognize from spam in your inbox, is SCI/IIIS and its dozens of co-located conferences (check out the very broad conference description on the WMSCI 2005 website). We went to WMSCI 2005. Also, check out our 10th anniversary celebration project: SCIpher!

Generate a Random Paper Want to generate a random CS paper of your own? SCIgen currently supports Latin-1 characters, but not the full Unicode character set. Examples Talks Harnessing Byzantine Fault Tolerance Using Classical Theory Dr. Trouble playing the AVI? Code. SCIgen detection website. Nature: Publishers withdraw more than 120 gibberish papers. The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer-generated nonsense. Over the past two years, computer scientist Cyril Labbé of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, has catalogued computer-generated papers that made it into more than 30 published conference proceedings between 2008 and 2013.

Sixteen appeared in publications by Springer, which is headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, and more than 100 were published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), based in New York. Both publishers, which were privately informed by Labbé, say that they are now removing the papers. Among the works were, for example, a paper published as a proceeding from the 2013 International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering, held in Chengdu, China. *Update: One of the named authors replied to Nature News on 25 February.

Publishers remove gibberish computer-generated research papers. (Credit: (Bios [bible] installation image by robotlab) Springer and IEEE will be removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a researcher found they were computer-generated gibberish. For a layperson, looking at scientific papers can be an exercise in humility. We know most of those words, and surely they make sense in some capacity, but high concept research uses, by necessity, some very complicated language.

Apparently not even the publishers of these papers are as adept as we thought at gauging their meaning, as the work of one researcher reveals. Computer scientist Cyril Labbé of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, spent two years examining published research papers, and found that computer-generated papers made it into more than 30 conferences, and over 120 have been published by academic publishing houses — over 100 by the the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and 16 by Springer. Via www.nature.com. DUB: Meer dan 120 door computer gemaakte papers gewoon gepubliceerd.

Cursor TU/e Totale nonsens, toch gepubliceerd   26 februari 2014 De valse papers zijn ontdekt door computeranalist Cyril Labbé, meldt Nature. De papers komen voor in meer dan dertig zogeheten ‘conference proceedings’. Zestien ‘artikelen’ verschenen in uitgaven van het Duitse uitgeversbedrijf Springer, honderd werden gepubliceerd door het Amerikaanse Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. De publicaties zijn ‘geschreven’ door het softwareprogramma SCIgen, dat willekeurige zinnen aan elkaar plakt die niets met elkaar te maken hebben. Het programma werd in 2005 ontwikkeld door onderzoekers van de Amerikaanse universiteit MIT. Uitgeverij Springer heeft aangegeven dat de artikelen peer review ondergaan, “making it more mystifying that the papers were accepted”, aldus Nature.

De meeste papers die door computers aan elkaar zijn geplakt, werden verzonden naar conferenties in China. 712 keer gelezen.