SCIgen – An Automatic CS Paper Generator by Jeremy Stribling, Max Krohn, and Dan Aguayo.
From the webpage:
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). There’s also a list of known bogus conferences. 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! See Examples for more details.
We went to WMSCI 2005. Check out the talks and video. You can find more details in our blog.
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WARNING: As per the honor code promise to do your own work, write your own CS paper generator for class submissions.
Curious if anyone has extended this code to allow for customization for specific subject areas?
Or updated the vocabulary?
BTW, the world record for fraudulent papers is held by Yoshitaka Fujii, at 172. (The Problem with Peer Review by Natalie Healey.)
How long would it take to break that record in conference versus journal submissions? Which one would top 172 first? Conferences or journals?