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# Generating Pokemon names with a character-level language model RNN

A letter-based language model for generating new words similar to a trained-on list of words. Includes a trained model for generating new Pokemon names.
This is a letter-based language model for inventing words using an RNN. Here, I will walk through how this sort of language model works, why it is an interesting topic, and then use it to generate new Pokemon names.

## Why RNNs?

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* Inspired by Andrew Ng's lecture on language models in this [Coursera Specialization](https://www.coursera.org/specializations/deep-learning) on Deep Learning.

* The excellent [Tolkiendil](http://www.tolkiendil.com/langues/english/i-lam_arth/compound_sindarin_names) website was the source of my training data for Elvish names.
* I got the full list of existing Pokemon names from the [Pokemon Database](https://pokemondb.net/pokedex/national).

* The excellent [Tolkiendil](http://www.tolkiendil.com/langues/english/i-lam_arth/compound_sindarin_names) website was the source of my training data for Elvish names.

* The dinosaur names list was scraped from the [Wikipedia page on dinosaur genera](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dinosaur_genera)


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