Guanajuato, Gto., March 24, 2018.- Students of the University of Guanajuato (UG) created "Ibargüenbot", an informatic program that integrates science, technology and culture using a mathematical model that generates random text from a book of Jorge Ibargüengoitia.
That is what the students of UG's Campus Guanajuato revealed, Rodolfo Ferro and Ricardo Mirón, during their participation in the Reading International Fair of Yucatán (FILEY) to represent the area of science and technology of their university.
The students were invited by the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, and during their time at the FILEY they had workshops, talks and several scientific, technological and cultural activities for all audiences.
The young students assured that the technology is a tool that can be applied in many fields, so they took the Ibargüenbot project to present it at the FILEY.
This bot works when the user is shown random phrases according the text that is being used, as a word game that continuously repeat in a play, in this case they used "Las Muertas", a book from the renowned writer Jorge Ibargüengoitia. The students generated this model through a Markov chain –a probability process for an event to happen—.
The students assured that this bot can extend to other authors and other books, since it can gather all the words form that book and now which are the coincidences of certain words; since it has had good results because they have received screenshots of people using the bot with positive comments.
The bot can be found at http://ibarguenbot.herokuapp.com/generate
The students said to feel proud to represent UG and participate actively in diverse activities that contribute to generate liaisons with a laboratory of digital fabrication, in which they will also participate in the future.
In their intervention at the FILEY they addressed several topics related with the technology in an accessible language, so it could be comprehended by a college student and the children and awaken the interest to generate new ideas and inventions.
